Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

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.

Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

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

It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries, so what seems to them unnecessary, from a racial point of view, becomes necessary to us, who have had to labor all along under the disadvantage of being scattered without a racial aim or purpose.

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

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.