A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

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.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

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