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I like honesty and fair play.
The whole world is run on bluff.
Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.
The greatest possesion of man is character
Take the kinks out your mind, not your hair.
Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.
Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.
Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
If you get up everyday and you don't learn you are a fool
Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.
When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.
Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.
There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.
Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.
The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.
You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.
Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain.
Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.
To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.
History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.
Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!
The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.
Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.
I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.