Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Quotes

United States, Lawyer
January 2, 1898 – November, 1, 1989.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States (1921), and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She was the first African-American woman to practice law in Pennsylvania. She was the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, serving from 1919 to 1923.

I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
- Door
[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
- Black
- Door

Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
- Stop