We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.

America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

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

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

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

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.