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.

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

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.