I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

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

I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.