I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

How shall Integrity face Oppression?

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.