I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

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

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

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.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

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

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