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

Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

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

A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.

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.

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