"William Pickens" was an African-American orator, educator, journalist, and essayist. He wrote two autobiographies, first The Heir of Slaves, in 1911 and second Bursting Bonds in 1923, in which he mentioned race- motivated attacks on African Americans. both in the urban riots of 1919 and by lynching in 1921.

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Every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.

Living together is an art.

If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

A insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.

The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.

It is not the ought-ness of this problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!