"I want to say in the beginning that I do not come before you to criticize or find fault especially, but you know that…"

"Plain talk will not hurt us. It will lead each woman to study her own condition, that of her own family and so that o…"

"No nation or race has ever come up by entirely overlooking its members who are less fortunate, less ambitious, less s…"

"You are not, I know, surprised to hear me say that the women, young and older, among us, who most need to take cautio…"

"To be a stronger race physically we have got to be a more moral one. We do not want to lose our tempers when we discu…"

"It is not an easy thing to secure accurate data with reference to the race in these particulars, for, in making up th…"

"I do not mean to tell you, or leave the impression, that all of the disease and immorality in the race are confined t…"

"I give you now these facts for five of our large Southern cities: these relate especially to the death rate of colore…"

"The death rate of our children is something to make us tremble. As long as it is so high we cannot hope for much. Num…"

"We are very often inclined to treat this subject lightly by saying that we are a great reducing race, but I have no p…"