The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

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.

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.