Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

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.

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

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.