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

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Each one should remember there is a chance for him.