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How Shall Integrity Face Oppression? What Shall Honesty Do In The Face Of Deception, Decency In The Face Of Insult, Self-defense Before Blows? How Shall Desert And Accomplishment Meet Despising, Detraction, And Lies? What Shall Virtue Do To Meet Brute Force? There Are So Many Answers And So Contradictory; And Such Differences For Those On The One Hand Who Meet Questions Similar To This Once A Year Or Once A Decade, And Those Who Face Them Hourly And Daily.

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 Severest Charge That Can Be Brought Against The Christian Education Of The Negro In The South During The Last Thirty Years Is The Reckless Way In Which Sap-headed Young Fellows, Without Ability, And, In Some Cases, Without Character, Have Been Urged And Pushed Into The Ministry.

Daily The Negro Is Coming More And More To Look Upon Law And Justice, Not As Protecting Safeguards, But As Sources Of Humiliation And Oppression. The Laws Are Made By Men Who Have Little Interest In Him; They Are Executed By Men Who Have Absolutely No Motive For Treating The Black People With Courtesy Or Consideration; And, Finally, The Accused Law-breaker Is Tried, Not By His Peers, But Too Often By Men Who Would Rather Punish Ten Innocent Negroes Than Let One Guilty One Escape.

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.