It is often charged that the higher education lifts the Negro above
the needs of his race. The thousands of graduates of Negro Schools and
Colleges all over the land are a living refutation of this charge.
After the mind has been stored with knowledge it is transmitted to
the place where the need is greatest and the call is loudest, and
transmuted into whatever mode of energy may be necessary to accomplish
the imposed task.
The issues involved in the race question are as intricate in their
relations and far reaching in their consequences as any that have
ever taxed human wisdom for solution. No one can be too learned or
too profound in whose hands are entrusted the temporal and eternal
destiny of a human soul. Even if the educated Negro desired to flee
from his race, he soon learns by bitter experience that he will be
thrown back upon himself by the expulsive power of prejudice. He soon
learns that the Newtonian formula has a social application: “The force
of attraction varies directly as the mass.”