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.

You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

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

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.