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.

No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

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.

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

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.

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.