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

If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.

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

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

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.

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.