"If the professor means by the term "my race" the colored race of this country, some of them are certainly wise enough to understand the philosophy and genius of national sociology enough to know that social equality carries with it civil equality, political equality, financial equality, judicial equality, business equality, and wherever social equality is denied by legislative enactments and judicial decrees, the sequel must be discrimination, proscription, injustice and degradation."
Atlanta compromise

January 1, 1970