I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

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

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

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

I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.