Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.