In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.