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.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

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.

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

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

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

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.