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

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 no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

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

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

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.