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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.”

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

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

But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in “We, the people.”

My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

We should hold our differing opinions in mutual respect, and, having submitted them to the arbitrament of the ballot, should accept an adverse judgment with the same respect that we would have demanded of our opponents if the decision had been in our favor.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

The whole theory of our institutions is based on the liberty and independence of the individual.

The fact that the liberty of the press may be abused by miscreant purveyors of scandal does not make any the less necessary the immunity of the press from previous restraint in dealing with offical misconduct.

Economic independence is a relative condition at best.

That any living woman should prefer it to home and husband, to love and motherhood, throws a fierce light on what women must have suffered for lack of freedom before.

The fact is that old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights, and is not enslaved to any one.

in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.

To the extent that a citizen's right to vote is debased, he is that much less a citizen.

To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.

Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities.

No man can rob us of our Will--no man can lord it over that!

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms

To enslave men successfully and safely it is necessary to keep their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived.

From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.

It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.