Had It Not Been For The Race

Daily The Negro Is Coming More And More To Look Upon Law And Justice, Not As Protecting Safeguards, But As Sources Of Humiliation And Oppression. The Laws Are Made By Men Who Have Little Interest In Him; They Are Executed By Men Who Have Absolutely No Motive For Treating The Black People With Courtesy Or Consideration; And, Finally, The Accused Law-breaker Is Tried, Not By His Peers, But Too Often By Men Who Would Rather Punish Ten Innocent Negroes Than Let One Guilty One Escape.

There Can Be No Perfect Democracy Curtailed By Color, Race, Or Poverty. But With All We Accomplish All, Even Peace.

So Often Do You See Collegians Enter Life With High Resolve And Lofty Purpose And Then Watch Them Shrink And Shrink To Sordid, Selfish, Shrewd Plodders, Full Of Distrust And Sneers.

Unless Modern Civilization Is A Failure, It Is Entirely Feasible And Practicable For Two Races In Such Essential Political, Economic And Religious Harmony As The White And Colored People In America, To Develop Side By Side In Peace And Mutual Happiness, The Peculiar Contribution Which Each Has To Make To The Culture Of Their Common Country.

We Cannot Escape The Clear Fact That What Is Going To Win In This World Is Reason, If This Ever Becomes A Reasonable World.