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.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

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

Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.

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