A Classic Is A Book That Doesn't

Disfranchisement Is The Deliberate Theft And Robbery Of The Only Protection Of Poor Against Rich And Black Against White.

Either America Will Destroy Ignorance Or Ignorance Will Destroy The United States.

The True College Will Ever Have But One Goal - Not To Earn Meat, But To Know The End And Aim Of That Life Which Meat Nourishes.

How Hard A Thing Is Life To The Lowly And Yet How Human And Real Is It? And All This Life And Love And Strife And Failure, - Is It The Twilight Of Nightfall Or The Flush Of Some Faint-dawning Day? The Answer Lies In Each Of Us. For Somewhere In Your Past ... Somewhere Some 100 Years Ago?there Rose From The Smoldering Ashes Of Slavery?a Proud And Humble Family Who Suffered And Struggled With Life. A Family Who Found The Strength To Endure All The Indignities Of Life In America, And That Family Had The Hope For A Taste Of Her Bounties In The Future.

The History Of The American Negro Is The History Of This Strife, - This Longing To Attain Self-conscious Manhood, To Merge His Double Self Into A Better And Truer Self. In This Merging He Wishes Neither Of The Older Selves To Be Lost... He Simply Wishes To Make It Possible For A Man To Be Both A Negro And An American.