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

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

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 the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

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

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

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.