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

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.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

Character is power.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.