What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

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

The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the white and colored people in America, to develop side by side in peace and mutual happiness, the peculiar contribution which each has to make to the culture of their common country.