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

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

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.