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The observed worker should be made to realize the purpose and importance of the measurement.

And yet, in spite of the opposition encountered, and the obstacles opposed to their acquisition of knowledge and their accumulation of property, the progress made by colored women along these lines has never been surpassed by that of any people in the history of the world.

Seeking no favors because of our color, nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves

Why do they expect virtue from a slave, or from a being whom the constitution of civil society has rendered weak, if not vicious?

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

For equal work equally well performed by a man and by a woman, it is ordained that the woman on the ground of her sex alone shall receive a less recompense.

Give us labour and the training which fits for labour! We demand this, not for ourselves alone, but for the race.

That even one individual in a society should be debarred from undertaking that form of social toil for which it is most fitted, makes an unnecessary deficit in the general social assets.

We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less.

We make this demand, not for our own sakes alone, but for the succour of the race.

He who is wise tries to harmonise the wishes that seek for self-gratification with the wish for the social good, and only thus can he realise his higher self.

Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.

The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with the equal protection principle when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature -- equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities

To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution.

Convince me that liberty is not the inalienable birthright of every human being, of whatever complexion or clime, and I will give that instrument to the consuming fire.

Slavery cannot bear one ray of light, or the slightest criticism.

The right to speak freely and to promote diversity of ideas and programs is therefore one of the chief distinctions that sets us apart from totalitarian regimes.

The vitality of civil and political institutions in our society depends on free discussion.

The first duty of law is to keep sound the society it serves.