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Nay, ’tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

Education, then, is the safest and richest investment possible to man.

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.

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.

A race cannot be purified from without.

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.”

The case before us illustrates better than most that the judicial power is often difficult in its exercise.

A State cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family.

In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

Life is a stern business in any case: why pretend that it is anything else?

Somehow in judging polar life you must discount compulsory endurance; and find out what a man can shirk, remembering always that it is a sledging life which is the hardest test.

There were times when his optimism appeared forced and formal though I believe it was not really so: there were times when I have almost hated him for his infernal cheerfulness.

It is because it is so much easier to shirk in civilization that it is difficult to get a standard of what your average man can do.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

More than once in my short life I have been struck by the value of the man who is blind to what appears to be a common-sense certainty: he achieves the impossible.

Antarctic exploration is seldom as bad as you imagine, seldom as bad as it sounds.

There is no doubt that a blizzard has a bewildering and numbing effect upon the brain of any one exposed to it.

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion.

If you are a brave man you will do nothing: if you are fearful you may do much, for none but cowards have need to prove their bravery.

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

Such extremity of suffering cannot be measured: madness or death may give relief.

What pulled Scott through was character, sheer good grain, which ran over and under and through his weaker self and clamped it together.