If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.