You are the non-patriots, and you are the un-Americans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. - Paul Robeson

There are others, honest men beyond all doubt and sincerely concerned with their people's welfare, who seem to feel that it is the duty of a leader to discourage Negro mass action. They think that best results can be achieved by the quiet negotiations they carry on. And so when something happens that arouses the masses of people, and when the people gather in righteous anger to demand that militant actions be started, such men believe it their duty to cool things off.

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right—nay the duty—to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity.