Whiteness Is Ownership Of The Earth.

Had It Not Been For The Race Problem Early Thrust Upon Me And Enveloping Me, I Should Have Probably Been An Unquestioning Worshipper At The Shrine Of The Established Social Order And Of The Economic Development Into Which I Was Born.

Education Is That Whole System Of Human Training Within And Without The School House Walls, Which Molds And Develops Men.

America Is Not Another Word For Opportunity To All Her Sons.

Raphael Painted, Luther Preached, Corneille Wrote, And Milton Sang; And Through It All, For Four Hundred Years, The Dark Captives Wound To The Sea Amid The Bleaching Bones Of The Dead: For Four Hundred Years The Sharks Followed The Scurrying Ships; For Four Hundred Years America Was Strewn With The Living And Dying Millions Of A Transplanted Race; For Four Hundred Years Ethiopia Stretched Forth Her Hands Unto God.

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.