The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

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.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.