To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

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

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

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

We must reinforce argument with results.

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

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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

Character is power.

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 overcome while trying to succeed.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.