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.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
