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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.