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

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

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

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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.