Men Must Not Only Know, They Must

Children Learn More From What You Are Than What You Teach.

What Do Nations Care About The Cost Of War, If By Spending A Few Hundred Millions In Steel And Gunpowder They Can Gain A Thousand Millions In Diamonds And Cocoa?

Cannot The Nation That Has Absorbed Ten Million Foreigners Into Its Political Life Without Catastrophe Absorb Ten Million Negro Americans Into That Same Political Life At Less Cost Than Their Unjust And Illegal Exclusion Will Involve?

The History Of The American Negro Is The History Of This Strife, - This Longing To Attain Self-conscious Manhood, To Merge His Double Self Into A Better And Truer Self. In This Merging He Wishes Neither Of The Older Selves To Be Lost... He Simply Wishes To Make It Possible For A Man To Be Both A Negro And An American.

Would America Have Been America Without Her Negro People?