No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.

All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.

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

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

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.