Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

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.