Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

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

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'