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.

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

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 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.

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.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.