Strive For That Greatness Of Spirit That

For Education Among All Kinds Of Men Always Has Had, And Always Will Have, An Element Of Danger And Revolution, Of Dissatisfaction And Discontent.

The Chief Problem In Any Community Cursed With Crime Is Not The Punishment Of The Criminals, But The Preventing Of The Young From Being Trained To Crime.

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.

Among Negroes Of My Generation There Was Not Only Little Direct Acquaintance Or Consciously Inherited Knowledge Of Africa, But Much Distaste And Recoil Because Of What The White World Taught Them About The Dark Continent. There Arose Resentment That A Group Like Ours, Born And Bred In The United States For Centuries, Should Be Regarded As Africans At All. They Were, As Most Of Them Began Gradually To Assert, Americans. My Father's Father Was Particularly Bitter About This. He Would Not Accept An Invitation To A 'negro' Picnic. He Would Not Segregate Himself In Any Way.

Whiteness Is Ownership Of The Earth.