Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

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.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.