• If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

    Frances Harper: If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.
    Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.124, Feminist Press at CUNY