If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

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.