Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color

In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists

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

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

 Providence so often uses men and institutions to accomplish a purpose. 

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak

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

We must reinforce argument with results

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

 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 

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. 

Cast down your bucket where you are. 

He who lives outside the law is a slave. The free man is the man who lives within the law, whether that law be the physical or the divine

Great men cultivate love… Only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

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

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

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

A whining crying race may be pitied but seldom respected.

To be one with God is to be like God. Our real religious striving then, should be to become one with God; sharing with Him in our poor humble way His qualities and attributes

We should not permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities

 Opportunities never come a second time, nor do they wait for our leisure

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it

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

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

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

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

“Education is not a thing apart from life—not a “system,” nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.”

“I will permit no man to narrow & degrade my sould by making me hate him.”

 It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges

“The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.”

“Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.”

“I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”

 “My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.”

“In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not long keep the world from what it wants.”

“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

“Instead of studying books so constantly, how I wish that our schools and colleges might learn to study men and things!”

 “Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite.”

“Character is power.” 

“A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.”

“In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him

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

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

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

Character, not circumstances, makes the man

“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 overcome while trying to succeed.” 

“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.” 

“Success always leaves footprints.”