"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at th…"

"The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and th…"

"So thoroughly did he learn the speech and thought of triumphal commercialism, and the ideals of material prosperity, …"

"With all due respect to Prof. Washington personally, for we do respect him personally, he will have to live a long ti…"

"Would an alien outsider judge America's performance by My Lai and Wounded Knee or by Lincoln and Jefferson?"

"Suddenly, I heard a single shot from the direction of the troops. Then three or four. A few more. And immediately, a …"

"[T]hen many Indians broke into the ravine; some ran up the ravine and to favorable positions for defense."

"I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the b…"

"There was a woman with an infant in her arms who was killed as she almost touched the flag of truce ... A mother was …"

"I know the men did not aim deliberately and they were greatly excited. I don't believe they saw their sights. They fi…"