The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

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

Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

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

It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.