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.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

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.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.