We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

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

It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.

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

Liberty trains for liberty.

Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.