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

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

Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust 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.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

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