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

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.

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.

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.