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.

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

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

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.