"Few are too young, and none are too old, to make the attempt to learn."

"Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances."

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

"No race can prosper until it learns 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."

"You can`t hold a man down without staying down with him."