I Believe In Pride Of Race And

The Function Of The University Is Not Simply To Teach Breadwinning, Or To Furnish Teachers For The Public Schools, Or To Be A Centre Of Polite Society; If Is, Above All, To Be The Organ Of That Fine Adjustment Between Real Life And The Growing Knowledge Of Life, An Adjustment From Which Forms The Secret Of Civilization.

A Man Does Not Look Behind The Door Unless He Has Stood There Himself

Why Did God Make Me An Outcast And A Stranger In Mine Own House? The Shades Of The Prison-house Closed Round About Us All: Walls Strait And Stubborn To The Whitest, But Relentlessly Narrow, Tall, And Unscalable To Sons Of Night Who Must Plod Darkly On In Resignation, Or Beat Unavailing Palms Against The Stone, Or Steadily, Half Hopelessly, Watch The Streak Of Blue Above.

Strive For That Greatness Of Spirit That Measures Life Not By Its Disappointments But By Its Possibilities.

This The American Black Man Knows: His Fight Here Is A Fight To The Finish. Either He Dies Or Wins. If He Wins It Will Be By No Subterfuge Or Evasion Of Amalgamation . He Will Enter Modern Civilization Here In America As A Black Man On Terms Of Perfect And Unlimited Equality With Any White Man, Or He Will Enter Not At All. Either Extermination Root And Branch, Or Absolute Equality. There Can Be No Compromise. This Is The Last Great Battle Of The West.