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

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.