Only The Black Woman Can

If Our Vaunted Rule Of The People Does Not Breed Nobler Men And Women Than Monarchies Have Done It Must And Will Inevitably Give Place To Something Better.

It Is Not The Intelligent Woman V. The Ignorant Woman; Nor The White Woman V. The Black, The Brown, And The Red, It Is Not Even The Cause Of Woman V. Man. Nay, Tis Woman's Strongest Vindication For Speaking That The World Needs To Hear Her Voice.

... So Long As Woman Sat With Bandaged Eyes And Manacled Hands, Fast Bound In The Clamps Of Ignorance And Inaction, The World Of Thought Moved In Its Orbit Like The Revolutions Of The Moon; With One Face (the Man's Face) Always Out, So That The Spectator Could Not Distinguish Whether It Was Disc Or Sphere.

... Woman's Cause Is The Cause Of The Weak; And When All The Weak Shall Have Received Their Due Consideration, Then Woman Will Have Her "rights," And The Indian Will Have His Rights, And The Negro Will Have His Rights, And All The Strong Will Have Learned At Last To Deal Justly, To Love Mercy, And To Walk Humbly; And Our Fair Land Will Have Been Taught The Secret Of Universal Courtesy Which Is After All Nothing But The Art, The Science, And The Religion Of Regarding One's Neighbor As One's Self, And To Do For Him As We Would, Were Conditions Swapped, That He Do For Us.

Tis Woman's Strongest Vindication For Speaking That The World Needs To Hear Her Voice. It Would Be Subversive Of Every Human Interest That The Cry Of One-half The Human Family Be Stifled. ... The World Has Had To Limp Along With The Wobbling Gait And One-sided Hesitancy Of A Man With One Eye. Suddenly The Bandage Is Removed From The Other Eye And The Whole Body Is Filled With Light. It Sees A Circle Where Before It Saw A Segment. The Darkened Eye Restored, Every Member Rejoices With It.