At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

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.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

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.