The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

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'.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

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.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.