Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.

I like honesty and fair play.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

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.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

The whole world is run on bluff.

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.

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.

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.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.

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.

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.

With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

The black skin is not a badge of shame but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

A mans bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

With confidence you have won before you have started.

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Hungry men have no respect for law authority or human life.

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

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.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.