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.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

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'.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.