The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

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

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

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.

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.

Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.

The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.