When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.

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.

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.

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.