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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.