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.

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

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 lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

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.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

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