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

The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

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

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.

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