Character is power.

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

We must reinforce argument with results.

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

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

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.