Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.

All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.