Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.

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

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

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

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

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