“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

“I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

“The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.”

“I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. ”

“My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.”

“I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.”