No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is... simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and name...d their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin ...of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at lea...st, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their prese...nce be known.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line--the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in A...sia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, ...the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a greater problem which both obscures and... implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »