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.

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.

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

Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.

Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.

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

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.