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injustice, no matter how coura-
geously she might have set
out to remedy that wrong,
had she lacked endurance she
had never been the one to lead
us to victory

{poem}
"Endurance is the crowning quality
and Patience all the passion of great hearts.
These are their stay and when the
leaden world
sets its hard face against their fateful
thought
and brute strength, like a scornful
conqueror,
clangs his huge mace down in the
other scale,
the inspired soul but flings his patience in
and slowly that outweights the
ponderous globe."
{(end of poem)}

As justice is the root of the tree
of character and patience the stalk
from which all growth proceeds,
so tenderness is the outflower-
ing of the divinity within. By her
tenderness Miss Anthony made herself
loved where she might only have
been honored. Thus Miss Anthony
justice-loving, patient, tender, was