Enter to learn; depart to serve.

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

I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.