Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington

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

In working out our destiny, while the main burden and center of activity must be with us, we shall need in a large measure the help, the encouragement, the guidance that the strong can give the weak. Thus helped, we of both races in the South shall soon throw off the shackles of racial and sectional prejudice and rise above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness into that atmosphere, that pure sunshine, where it will be our highest ambition to serve man, our brother, regardless of race or past conditions.

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