Atlanta Daily World

Creed Of American Negro Youth
By T. H. GRAY

I believe in God as the embodiment and the expression of all
the goodness of the Universe, material and immaterial. I believe in
Youth as the recurrent, perennial, eternal spirit of progress. I believe in humanity, the humanity that transcends color feature, geo-
graphy or social and political organization. I believe in the Negro race as in any race, only as an element, and perhaps an episode
of this humanity. I believe therefore, in unsegregated justice, and
in unqualified equality as the only equality.
I believe in individual liberty, which is possible only in a
society of tolerance. I believe in the divine destiny of man, which
thinkable only as the Progressive purpose of Progress. I believe.
therefore, in the present as the all mother of the illimitable future.
in happiness, limited only by other happiness and by the legitimate
claims of future happiness
The new Negro. He is new. he is old, old as the forests
primordial stark in their nakedness of limb. His forebears roamed the jungles and led the chase, crystallized by the heat of oriental
suns. God made him a rock of undecaying power to become at
last the nation's cornerstone, rough hewn from the jungle and
the desert sand. Slavery was the chisel that fashioned him to
form and gave him all the art, and sciences had won. The
lyncher, mob and stake have been his emery wheel, to make of
him a polished man of strength and power. In sum--the latest
birth of freedom has again made all things new.
In Europe and Asia, with ebbing tides recede. America's un-
rimmed arch of freedom waits, till he, the corner stone of
strength. is lifted unto place and power. Behold him! dauntless
and unafraid he stands. He comes with laden arms, bearing
rich gift, to science, religion, poetry and song. labor and capital
Through him they shall find the equal heritage of common brotherhood. Statesmanship shall keep the stewardship of justice and
equal right and privileges for all
He knows his place, to keep it as a sacred trust and heritage
for all. to wear God's image in the ranks of men and walk as
Princes of the royal blood divine, on equal footing everywhere
with all mankind Whatever jading color on these shores, oriental
sunshine in his blood shall give the warming touch of brotherhood and love, to all the freed races in our land. He is the last
reserved of God on earth