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.

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

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.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

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.

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.