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

Success always leaves footprints.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.