Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.