There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

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.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

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

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.