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.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

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

You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

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.

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

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.