Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

Each one should remember there is a chance for him.