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

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

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

“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....”

“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 i...”