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

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.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

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

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.