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

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

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.

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.