Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

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

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?