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.

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

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

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

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.