Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.