The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

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.

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

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

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.

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.