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.

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 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.

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.

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

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

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