Children Learn More From What You Are

We Must Complain. Yes, Plain, Blunt Complaint, Ceaseless Agitation, Unfailing Exposure Of Dishonesty And Wrong - This Is The Ancient, Unerring Way To Liberty And We Must Follow It.

The Shadow Of A Mighty Negro Past Flits Through The Tale Of Ethiopia The Shadowy And Of The Egypt The Sphinx. Throughout History, The Powers Of Single Blacks Flash Here And There Like Falling Stars, And Die Sometimes Before The World Has Rightly Gauged Their Brightness.

The Dark World Is Going To Submit To Its Present Treatment Just As Long As It Must And Not One Moment Longer.

The Nation Has Not Yet Found Peace From Its Sins; The Freedman Has Not Yet Found In Freedom His Promised Land. Whatever Of Good May Have Come In These Years Of Change, The Shadow Of A Deep Disappointment Rests Upon The Negro People,—a Disappointment All The More Bitter Because The Unattained Ideal Was Unbounded Save By The Simple Ignorance Of A Lowly People.

The Power Of The Ballot We Need In Sheer Defense, Else What Shall Save Us From A Second Slavery?