The cause of war is preparation for war.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife and failure, - is it the twilight of nightfall or the flush of some faint-dawning day? The answer lies in each of us. For somewhere in your past ... somewhere some 100 years ago?there rose from the smoldering ashes of slavery?a proud and humble family who suffered and struggled with life. A family who found the strength to endure all the indignities of life in America, and that family had the hope for a taste of her bounties in the future.

But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

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