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 ….

The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges t….

A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else..

By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-ofte….

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence..

Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themse….

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up..

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.).

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother..

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great..

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else..

Each one should remember there is a chance for him..

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

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it..

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you..

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..

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too..

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life..

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overco….

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him..

No one can degrade us except ourselves..