Children Learn More From What You Are

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

One Ever Feels His Twoness - An American, A Negro; Two Souls, Two Thoughts, Two Unreconciled Strivings; Two Warring Ideals In One Dark Body, Whose Dogged Strength Alone Keeps It From Being Torn Asunder.

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.

The Cost Of Liberty Is Less Than The Price Of Repression.

How Shall Integrity Face Oppression? What Shall Honesty Do In The Face Of Deception, Decency In The Face Of Insult, Self-defense Before Blows? How Shall Desert And Accomplishment Meet Despising, Detraction, And Lies? What Shall Virtue Do To Meet Brute Force? There Are So Many Answers And So Contradictory; And Such Differences For Those On The One Hand Who Meet Questions Similar To This Once A Year Or Once A Decade, And Those Who Face Them Hourly And Daily.