The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

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.

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

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

All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.