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

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

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.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

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.

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.