All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.

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

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.