I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

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.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.