Success always leaves footprints.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

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

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

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

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'.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.