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.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

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.

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

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.