In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them..

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom..

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a lawsuit. It would do the cause much good. Let us banish fear. We….

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them..

It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to….

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent..

Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?.

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there..

If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an….

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate ….

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery..

In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the econom….

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopel….

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies..

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just..

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the gh….

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which ….

The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity ….

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority..

Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fe….

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people..