We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

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One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.

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Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.

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Men must not only know, they must act.

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The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

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Would America have been America without her Negro people?

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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

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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.

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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

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