I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

No one can degrade us except ourselves.