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.

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

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

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.

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.

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