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.

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.

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

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.

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.

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

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.