A Classic Is A Book That Doesn't

America Is Not Another Word For Opportunity To All Her Sons.

I Believe In Pride Of Race And Lineage And Self: In Pride Of Self So Deep As To Scorn Injustice To Other Selves; In Pride Of Lineage So Great As To Despise No Man's Father; In Pride Of Race So Chivalrous As Neither To Offer Bastardy To The Weak Nor Beg Wedlock Of The Strong, Knowing That Men May Be Brothers In Christ, Even Though They Be Not Brothers-in-law.

The Severest Charge That Can Be Brought Against The Christian Education Of The Negro In The South During The Last Thirty Years Is The Reckless Way In Which Sap-headed Young Fellows, Without Ability, And, In Some Cases, Without Character, Have Been Urged And Pushed Into The Ministry.

To Be A Poor Man Is Hard, But To Be A Poor Race In A Land Of Dollars Is The Very Bottom Of Hardships.

Raphael Painted, Luther Preached, Corneille Wrote, And Milton Sang; And Through It All, For Four Hundred Years, The Dark Captives Wound To The Sea Amid The Bleaching Bones Of The Dead: For Four Hundred Years The Sharks Followed The Scurrying Ships; For Four Hundred Years America Was Strewn With The Living And Dying Millions Of A Transplanted Race; For Four Hundred Years Ethiopia Stretched Forth Her Hands Unto God.