"The main difficulty of the race question does not lie so much in the actual condition of the blacks as it does in the mental attitude of the whites..."
"The burden of the question is not that the whites are struggling to save 10 million despondent... people from sinking into ...poverty ...in their very midst, but that they are unwilling to open certain doors of opportunity and to accord certain treatment to 10 million aspiring... people."
"Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst."
From Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson
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