I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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

Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.