The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

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.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.