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Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.
The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.
