Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women.

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'