Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.

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

Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.