It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

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.

We must reinforce argument with results.

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

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.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Do not do that which others can do as well.