Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.

We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.