 The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers. |
| This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom. |
| The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there. |
| I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me. |
| The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. |
| One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. |
| The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people. |
| This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. |
| In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. |
| Let us banish fear. |
| If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery. |
| If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do. |
| I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit. |
