Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Would America have been America without her Negro people?