Reclaiming Humanity: The Universal Women’s Cause

‘The colored woman feels that woman’s cause is one and universal; and that not till the image of God, whether in parian (white marble) or ebony, is sacred and inviolable; not till race, color, sex, and condition are seen as the accidents, and not the substance of life; not till the universal title of humanity, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is conceded to be inalienable to all; not till then is woman’s lesson taught and woman’s cause won – not the white woman’s, nor the black woman’s, not the red woman’s, but the cause of every man and of every woman who has writhed silently under a mighty wrong.‘
― Anna Julia Haywood Cooper