To say that the Negro cannot develop ... in the business world to managers with present-day capitalists is to deny actual facts, refute history, and discredit the Negro as a ... competitor in the economic battle of life. No man knows what he can do until he tries. The Negro race has never tried to do very much for itself. The race has great possibilities. Properly awakened, the Negro can do the so-called impossible in the business world and thus help to govern rather than merely be governed.
