If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

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.

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.

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.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.