Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home--so close and so small that they cannot be seen ...on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or o...ther. It becomes evident that such violations are not accidental events, they are not results of insufficient knowledge or of inattention which might have been avoided. On the contrary, we see that they are necessary for progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for pro...gress, the other side more or less for reaction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progres...s upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call it...self fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance--that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of th...ese college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation's greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
WHEREAS no provisions have, as yet, been made by the World's Columbian Exposition Commission for securing exhibits from the colore...d women of this country, or the giving of representation to them in such Fair, and WHEREAS under the present arrangement and classification of exhibits, it would be impossible for visitors to the Exposition to know and distinguish the exhibits and handiwork of the colored women from those of the Anglo- Saxons, and because of this the honor, fame and credit for all meritorious exhibits, though made by our race, would not duly be given us ... RESOLVED that for the purpose of demonstrating the progress of the colored women since emancipation and of showing to those who are yet doubters, and there are many, that the colored women ... are making rapid strides in art, science and manufacturing, and of furnishing to all information as to ... what the race has done, is doing and might do, in every department of life, that we, the colored women of Chicago request the Columbian Commission to establish an office for a colored woman whose duty it shall be to collect exhibits from the colored women of America ... [ellipses in source]LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have never yet spoken from a public platform about women in industry that someone has not said, "But things are far better than ...they used to be." I confess to impatience with persons who are satisfied with a dangerously slow tempo of progress for half of society in an age which requires a much faster tempo than in the days that "used to be." Let us use what might be instead of what has been as our yardstick!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We're for statehood. We want statehood because statehood means the protection of our farms and our fences; and it means schools fo...r our children; and it means progress for the future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall speak of ... how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another.... Of the revulsion that foll...ows one insight and precedes the next.... Of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »