No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

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

We must reinforce argument with results.

"Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder . . . wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker. . . . There is no escape -- man drags man down, or man lifts man up."