A Little Less Complaint And Whining, And

The Kind Of Sermon Which Is Preached In Most Colored Churches Is Not Today Attractive To Even Fairly Intelligent Men.

Histories Of The World Omitted China; If A Chinaman Invented Compass Or Movable Type Or Gunpowder We Promptly "forgot It" And Named Their European Inventors. In Short, We Regarded China As A Sort Of Different And Quite Inconsequential Planet.

I Am Especially Glad Of The Divine Gift Of Laughter: It Has Made The World Human And Lovable, Despite All Its Pain And Wrong.

And Yet Not A Dream, But A Mighty Reality- A Glimpse Of The Higher Life, The Broader Possibilities Of Humanity, Which Is Granted To The Man Who, Amid The Rush And Roar Of Living, Pauses Four Short Years To Learn What Living Means

I Believe In Pride Of Race And Lineage And Self: In Pride Of Self So Deep As To Scorn Injustice To Other Selves; In Pride Of Lineage So Great As To Despise No Man's Father; In Pride Of Race So Chivalrous As Neither To Offer Bastardy To The Weak Nor Beg Wedlock Of The Strong, Knowing That Men May Be Brothers In Christ, Even Though They Be Not Brothers-in-law.