Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

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.

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.