I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

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

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.

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.