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

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

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.

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.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

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

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