Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

Character is power.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.

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.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.