No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the w….

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem..

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way..

You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him..

Character is power..

You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it wil….

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless o….

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams..

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him..

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression o….

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, ….

Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting….

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultima….

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress..

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build….

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the pub….

Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason….

There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only ….

I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their t….

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or….

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where….