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.

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

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

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

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.