Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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

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

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

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.

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

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.