A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
The whole world is run on bluff.
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
