I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

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

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.

Character is power.