There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

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.

There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

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

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.