How shall Integrity face Oppression?

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

[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.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid; and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.