Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.