It Is As Though Nature Must Needs

The Time Must Come When, Great And Pressing As Change And Betterment May Be, They Do Not Involve Killing And Hurting People.

Had It Not Been For The Race Problem Early Thrust Upon Me And Enveloping Me, I Should Have Probably Been An Unquestioning Worshipper At The Shrine Of The Established Social Order And Of The Economic Development Into Which I Was Born.

The Power Of The Ballot We Need In Sheer Defense, Else What Shall Save Us From A Second Slavery?

I Believe In Liberty For All Men: The Space To Stretch Their Arms And Their Souls.

One Ever Feels His Twoness - An American, A Negro; Two Souls, Two Thoughts, Two Unreconciled Strivings; Two Warring Ideals In One Dark Body, Whose Dogged Strength Alone Keeps It From Being Torn Asunder.