The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

Mental inertia is death.

We are African in origin and American in birth.

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion it shows that society is rotten to the core.

We must all raise war against ignorance.

I wish you could stop wasting your life to fulfill other people’s dreams.

To be awake is to be alive.

She will not die today. I won't let her.

When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.

I’ll be like Esther. Your daughter.”“You ain’t that strong.

The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.

The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.

You have to be the first, best or different.

A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.