If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

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.

You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.