There Is In This World No Such

Progress In Human Affairs Is More Often A Pull Than A Push, A Surging Forward Of The Exceptional Man, And The Lifting Of His Duller Brethren Slowly And Painfully To His Vantage-ground.

No Universal Selfishness Can Bring Social Good To All.

I Refused To Teach Sunday School. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, My Last Rector, Died, I Flatly Refused Again To Join Any Church Or Sign Any Church Creed. From My 30th Year On I Have Increasingly Regarded The Church As An Institution Which Defended Such Evils As Slavery, Color Caste, Exploitation Of Labor And War.

Here Is The Chance For Young Women And Young Men Of Devotion To Lift Again The Banner Of Humanity And To Walk Toward A Civilization Which Will Be Free And Intelligent; Which Will Be Healthy And Unafraid; And Build In The World A Culture Led By Black Folk And Joined By Peoples Of All Colors And All Races - Without Poverty, Ignorance And Disease!

When In This World A Man Comes Forward With A Thought, A Deed, A Vision, We Ask Not How Does He Look, But What Is His Message?. . . The World Still Wants To Ask That A Woman Primarily Be Pretty. . . .