I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice. - Booker T. Washington

I have always been made sad when I have heard members of any race claiming rights and privileges, or certain badges of distinction, on the ground simply that they were members of this or that race, regardless of their own individual worth or attainments.

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

With few exceptions, the Negro youth must work harder and must perform his tasks even better than a with youth in order to secure recognition. But out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one missed whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of brith and race.