The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.

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.

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.

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

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