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.

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

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

You must give your own story to the world.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.