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.

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.

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 do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

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.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

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

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