We fight that all people shall live. We fight to send our money to end colonialism for the colored peoples of the world, not to perpetuate it in Mala… - Charlotta Bass

Included in Black Women in White America: A Documentary History by Gerda Lerner (1972)

For forty years I have been a working editor and publisher of the oldest Negro newspaper in the West. During those forty years I stood on a watch tower watching the tide of racial hatred and bigotry rising against my people and against all people who believe the Constitution is something more than a piece of yellowed paper to be shut off in a glass cage in the archives. I have stood watch over a home to protect a Negro family against the outrages of the Ku Klux Klan. And I have fought the brazen attempts to drive Negroes from their home under restrictive covenants. I have challenged the great corporations which extort huge profits from my people, and forced them to employ Negroes in their plants. I have stormed city councils and state legislatures and the halls of Congress demanding real representation for my people.

Frederick Douglass would rejoice, for he fought not only slavery but the oppression of women.