You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

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.

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.

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.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

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.

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.