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

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

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

The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve?

At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.