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

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

We must reinforce argument with results.

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 great men and women.

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

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.