“As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.”
“I am a radical.”
“I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.”
“I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.”
“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”
