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.

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.

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

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 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.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

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.