The Problem Of The Twentieth Century Is

As Negro Voting Increased, Congress Got An Improved Sense Of Hearing.

All Womanhood Is Hampered Today Because The World On Which It Is Emerging Is A World That Tries To Worship Both Virgins And Mothers And In The End Despises Motherhood And Despoils Virgins.

There Is Always A Certain Glamour About The Idea Of A Nation Rising Up To Crush An Evil Simply Because It Is Wrong. Unfortunately, This Can Seldom Be Realized In Real Life; For The Very Existence Of The Evil Usually Argues A Moral Weakness In The Very Place Where Extraordinary Moral Strength Is Called For.

The Theology Of The Average Colored Church Is Basing Itself Far Too Much Upon Hell And Damnation-upon An Attempt To Scare People Into Being Decent And Threatening Them With The Terrors Of Death And Punishment. We Are Still Trained To Believe A Good Deal That Is Simply Childish In Theology. The Outward And Visible Punishment Of Every Wrong Deed That Men Do The Repeated Declaration That Anything Can Be Gotten By Anyone At Any Time By Prayer.

We Cannot Hope, Then, In This Generation, Or For Several Generations, That The Mass Of The Whites Can Be Brought To Assume That Close Sympathetic And Self-sacrificing Leadership Of The Blacks Which Their Present Situation So Eloquently Demands. Such Leadership, Such Social Teaching And Example, Must Come From The Blacks Themselves.