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

Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

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

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

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.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.