Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.

All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?