I Believe In Liberty For All Men:

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.

The Negro Cannot Stand The Present Reactionary Tendencies And Unreasoning Drawing Of The Color Line Indefinitely Without Discouragement And Retrogression. And The Condition Of The Negro Is Ever The Cause For Further Discrimination.

Out Of The Temptation Of Hate, And Burned By The Fire Of Despair, Triumphant Over Doubt, And Steeled By Sacrifice Against Humiliation, . . . He Bent To All The Gibes And Prejudices, To All Hatred And Discrimination With That Rare Courtesy Which Is The Armor Of Pure Souls. . . . He Simply Worked, Inspiring The Young, Rebuking The Old, Helping The Weak, Guiding The Strong.

Mr. Washington Apologizes For Injustice, He Belittles The Emasculating Effects Of Caste Distinctions, And Opposes The Higher Training And Ambitions Of Our Brighter Minds. The Way For People To Gain Their Reasonable Rights Is Not By Voluntarily Throwing Them Away.

I Believe That There Are Human Stocks With Whom It Is Physically Unwise To Intermarry, But To Think That These Stocks Are All Colored Or That There Are No Such White Stocks Is Unscientific And False.