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.

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.

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

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.