The Cost Of Liberty Is Less Than

We Must Complain. Yes, Plain, Blunt Complaint, Ceaseless Agitation, Unfailing Exposure Of Dishonesty And Wrong - This Is The Ancient, Unerring Way To Liberty And We Must Follow It.

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.

[we Need Reforms] To Make The Negro Church A Place Where Colored Men And Women Of Education And Energy Can Work For The Best Things Regardless Of Their Belief Or Disbelief In Unimportant Dogmas And Ancient And Outworn Creeds.

It Is As Though Nature Must Needs Make Men Narrow In Order To Give Them Force.

Today I See More Clearly Than Yesterday That The Back Of The Problem Of Race And Color Lies A Greater Problem Which Both Obscures And Implements It: And That Is The Fact That So Many Civilized Persons Are Willing To Live In Comfort Even If The Price Of This Is Poverty, Ignorance, And Disease Of The Majority Of Their Fellow Men.