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

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

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.

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

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.