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Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored.

The laws of the United States must be executed.

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.

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

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.”

In the realm of time there is no aristocracy of wealth, and no aristocracy of intellect.

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.

My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.

The question is whether a statute authorizing such proceedings in restraint of publication is consistent with the conception of the liberty of the press as historically conceived and guaranteed.

Little by little, very slowly, and with most unjust and cruel opposition, at cost of all life holds most dear, it is being gradually established by many martyrdoms that human work is woman’s as well as man’s.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

To teach, to rule, to make, to decorate, to distribute,—these are not sex-functions: they are race-functions.

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

Our answer is this: a denial of constitutionally protected rights demands judicial protection; our oath and our office require no less of us.

Our constitutional system amply provides for the protection of minorities by means other than giving them majority control of state legislatures.

The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.

When the Government acts to take away the fundamental right of citizenship, the safeguards of the Constitution should be examined with special diligence.

The economy of injustice is to furnish resources for the fund of corruption.