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

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

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.

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

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.