One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

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.

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.

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

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

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.