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.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

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

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.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

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