If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

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.