Negroes - Sweet and docile Meek humble and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
Negro banks as a rule have failed because the people taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere withdrew their deposits.
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.
An American a Negro... two souls two thoughts two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
One ever feels his twoness - an American a Negro two souls two thoughts two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.