I Am Especially Glad Of The Divine

There Is In This World No Such Force As The Force Of A Person Determined To Rise. The Human Soul Cannot Be Permanently Chained.

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.

The Most Ordinary Negro Is A Distinct Gentleman, But It Takes Extraordinary Training And Opportunity To Make The Average White Man Anything But A Hog.

But We Do Not Merely Protest; We Make Renewed Demand For Freedom In That Vast Kingdom Of The Human Spirit Where Freedom Has Ever Had The Right To Dwell:the Expressing Of Thought To Unstuffed Ears; The Dreaming Of Dreams By Untwisted Souls.

Children Learn More From What You Are Than What You Teach.