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

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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