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

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

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

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

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

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

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.