No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

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

A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.

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