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

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

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

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

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

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.