Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

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.