Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.
Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.
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.
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.
The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.
Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.
Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
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