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

The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.

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.

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.

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

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

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.