Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.