The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

We must reinforce argument with results.