What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.

Liberty for all; chains for none.