The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

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.

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

Men must not only know, they must act.

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.