Our Destiny Is Largely In Our Hands.

Where Justice Is Denied, Where Poverty Is Enforced, . . . Neither Persons Nor Property Will Be Safe.

Having Despised Us, It Is Not Strange That Americans Should Seek To Render Us Despicable; Having Enslaved Us, It Is Natural That They Should Strive To Prove Us Unfit For Freedom; Having Denounced Us As Indolent, It Is Not Strange That They Should Cripple Our Enterprises.

In A Composite Nation Like Ours, Made Up Of Almost Every Variety Of The Human Family, There Should Be, As Before The Law, No Rich, No Poor, No High, No Low, No Black, No White, But One Country, One Citizenship Equal Rights And A Common Destiny For All. A Government That Cannot Or Does Not Protect The Humblest Citizen In His Right To Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness, Should Be Reformed Or Overthrown, Without Delay.

What I Ask For The Negro Is Not Benevolence, Not Pity, Not Sympathy, But Simply Justice.

My Theory Of Self-made Men Is, Then, Simply This; That They Are Men Of Work. Whether Or Not Such Men Have Acquired Material, Moral Or Intellectual Excellence, Honest Labor Faithfully, Steadily And Persistently Pursued, Is The Best, If Not The Only, Explanation Of Their Success... All Human Experience Proves Over And Over Again, That Any Success Which Comes Through Meanness, Trickery, Fraud And Dishonour, Is But Emptiness And Will Only Be A Torment To Its Possessor.