No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

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.

Character is power.

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.