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

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

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

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

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