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

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.

Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

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.

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.

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.