If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world.

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.