If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

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.

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

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.