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.

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'.

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

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

We must reinforce argument with results.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.