In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. - Booker T. Washington

More and more I am convinced that the final solution of the political end of our race problem will be for each state that finds it necessary to change the law bearing upon the franchise to make the law apply with absolute honesty, and without opportunity for double dealing or evasion, to both races alike. Any other course my daily observation in the South convinces me, will be unjust to the Negro, unjust to the white man, and unfair to the rest of the states in the Union, and will be, like slavery, a sin that at some time we shall have to pay for.

I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.