Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve?

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

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

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

Men must not only know, they must act.