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

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

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

Success always leaves footprints.

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

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.