Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility. - W. E. B. Du Bois

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

The price of repression is greater than the cost of liberty. The degradation of men costs something both to the degraded and those who degrade.