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A race cannot be purified from without.
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Only the BLACK WOMAN can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”
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Let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it—not the boys less, but the girls more.
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The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class,—it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
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Nay, ’tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.