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382 power was he impelled and sustained if not by the constancy of Afro-American women?

As our women have been great in the past they may be even more in the future. The race needs men, not only educated and scholarly, but men with will-power, and, if possible, with a steel backbone; men who once seeing-the right will maintain the same in the protection of home and home's dearest interests. We need man in some of our men; and most naturally we need men and money.

To our own true women alone we must look largely for these necessities. They preside over the home, they train the children of the home, and they will develop men and women in the home.