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

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

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

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

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

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with...

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

I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment–that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I...

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.

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...

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

Character is power.

Kada smo u kontaktu sa drugim čovekom, mi mu ili pomažemo ili smetamo. Nema trećeg: ili ga vučemo na dole, ili ga izvlačimo na površinu.

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...

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.