Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.

What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them.

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

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.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Enter to learn; depart to serve.

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