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.

Success always leaves footprints.

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.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

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

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.