In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it ….

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to expla….

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up..

Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went ….

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are..

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper….

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as wh….

Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry and my colour to d….

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome..

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to….

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than ….

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race..

Character, not circumstances, makes the man..

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least..

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

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 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….

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate..

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star..

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character..

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him..