You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

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.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

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.

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