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

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

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

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

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

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

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.