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

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.