The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

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 ghetto.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

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

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.

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. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.