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

Liberty trains for liberty.

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

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