What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

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.

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.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

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 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.

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