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

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

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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

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.

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.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.