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.

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

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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'.

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