Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.