Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

The Buddha promised release from something we all understand: suffering. By contrast, no one can say what was the original sin, and no one understands how the suffering of Christ can redeem it.

Those who claim the right to that arrogance without accomplishments to back it up deserve to be exposed.

Our relationship with Egypt is very, very important. And I would want them to remain an ally. I don't want to see that official status change.

The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves

It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.