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

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

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.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

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.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

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