A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

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

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife and failure, - is it the twilight of nightfall or the flush of some faint-dawning day? The answer lies in each of us. For somewhere in your past ... somewhere some 100 years ago?there rose from the smoldering ashes of slavery?a proud and humble family who suffered and struggled with life. A family who found the strength to endure all the indignities of life in America, and that family had the hope for a taste of her bounties in the future.