One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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

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

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

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.

I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.