It is not the President or the Senators or the Congressmen, or even the Governors, who make up our nation, who make the greatness of our nat...
What we need is the performance of duty, of the ordinary duty that the ordinary man or woman has to meet as he or she lives his or her life.
The one all-essential thing in America, the thing that underlies everything else, is to have the average American a good man or a good woman...
I believe in it with all my heart.
I believe in the future of America, because I believe that the average American man, and the average American woman, is sound at heart.
The destiny of the race is chiefly in its own hands, and must be worked out patiently and persistently along these lines.
The man or the woman who counts in life is the man or the woman who does not flinch from a task, but who does the task, who overcomes the ob...
Poor, indeed, would be the soul of the man who did not leave Montgomery a better American than when he came into it.
Viewed from any angle, ignorance is the costliest crop that can be raised in any part of this Union.
It is character that determines the nation's progress in the long run.
But to be a member of a self-governing community means that if you are to do your part in that community, you must possess the powers of sel...
We must remember that we leave this country in the hands of the children of today.
To the white population as well as to the black, it is of the utmost importance that the negro be encouraged to make himself a citizen of th...
The one thing this nation cannot afford to neglect is the education of the nation of the future.
It is in the interest, and for the protection, of the white man to see that the negro is educated.
People can govern themselves only by practicing the virtues of moderation, self-restraint, of understanding that the simple homely virtues o...
The hope of advancement for the colored man in the South lies in his steady, commonsense effort to improve his moral and material condition.
Finally, and in closing, my friends, let me draw one more lesson from the Civil War; from the experience of the men of the Civil War.
