Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

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

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

The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.