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 »
Every woman who visited the Fair made it the center of her orbit. Here was a structure designed by a woman, decorated by women, ma...naged by women, filled with the work of women. Thousands discovered women were not only doing something, but had been working seriously for many generations ... [ellipsis in source] Many of the exhibits were admirable, but if others failed to satisfy experts, what of it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I may be old-fashioned. I don't like this modern movement.... And yet, there are certain sorts of work a woman may well do; teachi...ng, being governess, or any taking care of children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simply... more voters, but better voters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Political life in our country has plowed in muddy channels, and needs the infusion of clearer and cleaner waters. I am not sure th...at women are naturally so much better than men that they will clear the stream by the virtue of their womanhood; it is not through sex but through character that the best influence of women upon the life of the nation must be exerted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More than the changing of institutions we need the development of a national conscience, and the upbuilding of national character.... Men may boast of the aristocracy of blood, may glory in the aristocracy of talent, and be proud of the aristocracy of wealth, but there is one aristocracy which must ever outrank them all, and that is the aristocracy of character; and it is the women of a country who help to mold its character, and to influence if not determine its destiny; and in the political future of our nation woman will not have done what she could if she does not endeavor to have our republic stand foremost among the nations of the earth, wearing sobriety as a crown and righteousness as a garment and a girdle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has al...ready gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead with...out woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
May we not assure ourselves that whatever woman's thought and study shall embrace will thereby receive a new inspiration, that she... will save science from materialism, and art from a gross realism; that the "eternal womanly shall lead upward and onward"?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »