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

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

Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.