"During the next half-century and more, my race must continue passing through severe American crucible. We are to be t…"

"The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatu…"

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obst…"

"Every persecuted individual and race should get much consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and e…"

"At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the …"

"At Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labour, but learned to love labour, not alone for its fin…"

"I used to picture the way that I would act under such circumstances; how I would begin at the bottom and keep rising …"

"My experience has been that the time to test a true gentlemen is to observe him when he is in contact with individual…"

"He who lifts up his hand in a threatening manner against a fellow-man, though he may not actually strike him, is desi…"

"In calling his two sons by the names of Gershom and Eliezer, Moses, like Joseph and other righteous men, intended to …"