At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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.

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

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.

If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.