Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains..

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. O….

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

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history..

The mere imparting of information is not education..

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race..

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that wil….

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

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for the….

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….

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discriminatio….

The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal somethin….

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….

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..

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..

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

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

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their dep….

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

The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossib….

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions..