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.

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.

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.

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

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.