Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

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.

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.

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

You must give your own story to the world.

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

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