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.

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.

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

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.