Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.

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.

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

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.