Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.

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.

There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

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

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.