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.

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.