This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

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.

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

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

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

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 others do not possess.