If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.

How shall Integrity face Oppression?

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.

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.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.