My vocation has been to wage a crusade against lynching, disenfranchisement, peonage, public segregation, injustice, denial of service in public places for color, in war time and peace.

Report, Issue 7, Harvard University, Class of 1895 (published in 1925), p. 303. Also in: Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture, Volume 7 (1946), p. 241