I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

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.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.