Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

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

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.

You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.