I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

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.

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

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.