Occupation: Publisher Birth: August 17, 1887 Death: June 10, 1940
I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is devoted to the up-building and developmen….
What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time..
The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race a….
Africa with 400 million Black People can do it. If you cannot do it, if you are not prepared to do it then you will DIE. You race of cowards, you….
Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward..
Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see h….
Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and see….
A happy but miserable state in which man finds himself from time to time; sometimes he believes he is happy by loving, then suddenly he finds how mis….
If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa’s glory..
The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into ete….
No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers..
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of th….
At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters..
I like honesty and fair play..
Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the people; ….
A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been living upon the mercies shown b….
They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor EXPLOITATION, the other r….
Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement..
The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization..
Before we can properly help the people, we have to destroy the old education... that teaches them that somebody is keeping them back and that God has….
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness..