FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   >>  
red Mother Beautiful. When a woman enters into the marriage contract--into the partnership of home making--it is understood that parenthood is to be the chief aim and hope. If a man is good enough to marry and to contribute his support, he is good enough to be a father or else he should not have been selected. A woman who marries and does not intend to have children is merely an object of convenience who has sold herself. To assume the position of colored motherhood is the greatest privilege and responsibility that can come to any woman in this age. The colored mother beautiful carries a heavy burden--the weight of future generations of a handicapped, persecuted people. She may bless or curse each succeeding generation; she may change race history; she may make a more beautiful race with the beauty that comes from beauty of character and right living. What a privilege to carve the destiny of a race! How glorious to look into the future and see lines of ancestry influenced and advanced by her thought and example, to see her stamp of personality upon a posterity which will point to her in pride and thankfulness! The time has come when each colored girl must prepare herself for this rare privilege, when she must distribute her powers and talents for race good. Whatever the colored mother is, millions of colored children will be. A colored mother lives not only for herself and for her own children, but she must live for the race. A colored mother is a success as she measures up to her relation and obligation to the race. Negro children of all children need mothers who are strong spiritually, physically, and intellectually. Enough colored children have been born under bad or careless conditions. The child born under bad conditions can not be expected to hold his own among other children. No woman has a right to blight the future of her race. Not even her body may be abused--this beautiful casket--the treasure house of future souls. Any crime that she commits against herself or her body she commits against the race. Almost any colored mother would lay down her life for her children but she must have a wider vision into the scheme of life and the world, and must deliberately plan to make her grand-children and great grand-children healthier, happier and more useful. While it is admitted that heredity is not all, yet inherited tendencies have great influence. The colored mother beautiful must be a
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   >>  



Top keywords:
colored
 
children
 
mother
 
future
 

beautiful

 

privilege

 

conditions

 

beauty

 

commits

 

powers


distribute

 

talents

 

strong

 

prepare

 

spiritually

 

relation

 

obligation

 
physically
 
success
 

measures


Whatever

 

mothers

 
millions
 

deliberately

 

scheme

 

vision

 
healthier
 

happier

 

inherited

 
tendencies

influence

 
heredity
 

admitted

 

Almost

 
expected
 

Enough

 

careless

 

blight

 

treasure

 

abused


casket

 
intellectually
 
living
 

intend

 

marries

 

selected

 

father

 

object

 

convenience

 
greatest