What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

There are mountainous obstacles still separating Negroes from a normal existence. Yet one element in stabilizing his life would be an understanding of and easy access to the means to develop a family related in size to his community environment and to the income potential he can command.