In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.

Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

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

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

How shall Integrity face Oppression?