A Classic Is A Book

Unless Modern Civilization Is A Failure, It Is Entirely Feasible And Practicable For Two Races In Such Essential Political, Economic And Religious Harmony As The White And Colored People In America, To Develop Side By Side In Peace And Mutual Happiness, The Peculiar Contribution Which Each Has To Make To The Culture Of Their Common Country.

I Sit With Shakespeare And He Winces Not.

We Cannot Escape The Clear Fact That What Is Going To Win In This World Is Reason, If This Ever Becomes A Reasonable World.

Actively We Have Woven Ourselves With The Very Warp And Woof Of This Nation, - We Have Fought Their Battles, Shared Their Sorrow, Mingled Our Blood With Theirs, And Generation After Generation Have Pleaded With A Headstrong, Careless People To Despise Not Justice, Mercy And Truth, Lest The Nation Be Smitten With A Curse. Our Song, Our Toil, Our Cheer And Warning Have Been Given To This Nation In Blood-brotherhood. Are Not These Gifts Worth The Giving? Is Not This Worth The Striving? Would America Have Been America Without Her Negro People?

Life Has Its Pains And Evils-its Bitter Disappointments; But Like A Good Novel And In Healthful Length Of Days, There Is Infinite Joy In Seeing The World, The Most Interesting Of Continued Stories, Unfold.