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

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

We must reinforce argument with results.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

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

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