Do not do that which others can do as well.

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

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

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

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.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.