I Do Not See How A People

I Do Not See How A People That Can Find In Its Conscience Any Excuse Whatever For Slowly Burning To Death A Human Being, Or For Tolerating Such An Act, Can Be Entrusted With The Salvation Of A Race.

A People May Become Great Through Many Means, But There Is Only One Measure By Which Its Greatness Is Recognized And Acknowledged. The Final Measure Of The Greatness Of All Peoples Is The Amount And Standard Of The Literature And Art They Have Produced.... No People That Has Produced Great Literature And Art Has Ever Been Looked Upon By The World As Distinctly Inferior.

Shortly After This I Was Made A Member Of The Boys Choir, It Being Found That I Possessed A Clear, Strong Soprano Voice. I Enjoyed The Singing Very Much.

You Are Young, Gifted, And Black. We Must Begin To Tell Our Young, There's A World Waiting For You, Yours Is The Quest That's Just Begun.

This Country Can Have No More Democracy Than It Accords And Guarantees To The Humblest And Weakest Citizen.