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.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.