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

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him..

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….

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..

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patien….

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to t….

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of lab….

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

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man..

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals..

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….

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself..

I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no….

No one can degrade us except ourselves..

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all..

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

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth..

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….

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

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….

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….