The New York Age, New York, September 21, 1911

It is more obligatory upon Negroes than upon other sorts of people to so conduct themselves in places of public amusement, accommodation and transportation as gentlemen - modest, quiet, unobtrusive, but without fear or subserviency - because any display of vulgarity, uppishness, bumptiousness, attracts attention more readily to them than to others, because of their color. Conduct in such places which would pass unnoticed or be laughed out of countenance when exhibited by a white person, is promptly resented when exhibited by a black person, often with serious consequences. It is not wise to rush into a fight, and it is foolish to run out of one when it rushes into you. Fight, when forced to do it, but fight hardest not to be forced to do it.