The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

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

Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve?

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.