Success always leaves footprints.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.

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'.

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.