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

You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

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

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