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.

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

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

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

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

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.