At First Everyone Predicted That It Would

In The Beginning I Thought, And Still Think, He Did Great Good In Giving Support And Encouragement To This Movement. But I Did Not Believe Then, And Have Never Believed Since, That These Ills Can Be Settled By Partisan Political Methods. They Are Moral And Economic Questions.

A Few Years Ago No Hotel Or Restaurant In Boston Refused Negro Guests; Now Several Hotels, Restaurants, And Especially Confectionary Stores, Will Not Serve Negroes, Even The Best Of Them.

One Of The Points In Which I Was Especially Interested Was The Jim Crow Regulations, That Is, The System Of Separation Of The Races In Street Cars And Railroad Trains.

Most Of Us Have Collections Of Sayings We Live By. . . . Whenever Words Fly Up At Me From The Printed Page As I Read, I Intercept Them Instantly, Knowing They Are For Me. I Turn Them Over Carefully In My Mind And Cling To Them Hard.

I Sometimes Think We Expect Too Much Of Christmas Day. We Try To Crowd Into It The Long Arrears Of Kindliness And Humanity Of The Whole Year. As For Me, I Like To Take My Christmas A Little At A Time, All Through The Year.