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

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.