“It is no fault of the Negro that he stands in the United States of America today as the passive and silent rebuke to the Nation’s Christianity, the great gulf between its professions and its practices, furnishing the chief ethical element in its politics, constantly pointing with dumb but inexorable fingers to those ideals of our civilization which embody the Nation’s highest, truest, and best thought, its noblest and grandest purpose and aspirations.” (206)