Quotes about Progress

My future is righteousness.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

In all things that are purely social we [black and white] can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked

Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

If you are milking cows and feel that you know all that there is to be known about it, you have simply reached the point where you are useless and unfitted for the work.