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.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

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

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.

Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.