But the chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not Punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to cr… - W. E. B. Du Bois

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, and adjustment which forms the secret of civilisation.

In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro.