We Shall Never Secure Emancipation From The

Today I See More Clearly Than Yesterday That The Back Of The Problem Of Race And Color Lies A Greater Problem Which Both Obscures And Implements It: And That Is The Fact That So Many Civilized Persons Are Willing To Live In Comfort Even If The Price Of This Is Poverty, Ignorance, And Disease Of The Majority Of Their Fellow Men.

Little Of Beauty Has America Given The World Save The Rude Grandeur God Himself Stamped On Her Bosom; The Human Spirit In This New World Has Expressed Itself In Vigor And Ingenuity Rather Than In Beauty.

But Art Is Not Simply Works Of Art; It Is The Spirit That Knows Beauty, That Has Music In Its Soul And The Color Of Sunsets In Its Headkerchiefs; That Can Dance On A Flaming World And Make The World Dance, Too.

All Men Cannot Go To College But Some Men Must; Every Isolated Group Or Nation Must Have Its Yeast, Must Have For The Talented Few Centers Of Training Where Men Are Not So Mystified And Befuddled By The Hard And Necessary Toil Of Earning A Living, As To Have No Aims Higher Than Their Bellies, And No God Greater Than Gold.

I Believe That All Men, Black And Brown And White, Are Brothers, Varying Through Time And Opportunity, In Form And Gift And Feature, But Differing In No Essential Particular, And Alike In Soul And The Possibility Of Infinite Development.