There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

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

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Character is power.

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.