There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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 reward.
Do not do that which others can do as well.
An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.