We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.