The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

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

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

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

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.