The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.

You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.