The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

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.

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.

Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

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

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.