The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told; and as whatever of humilation there is in it, falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it.

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.