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

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.

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

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.

The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.