Quotes about Unity

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

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

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.

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

I will permit no man to narrow & degrade my sould by making me hate him.

it is the smaller, the petty, things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together.

In all my acquaintance with General Armstrong I never heard him speak, in public or in private, a single bitter word against the white man in the South. From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

that this was the first time in the entire history of the Negro that a member of my race had been asked to speak from the same platform with white Southern men and women on any important National occasion. I was asked now to speak to an audience composed of the wealth and culture of the white South, the representatives of my former masters.

It is not possible for one man to hold another man down in the ditch without staying down there with him.

There are some things that one individual can do for another, and there are some things that one race can do for another. But, on the whole, every individual and every race must work out its own salvation.

It is now long ago that I learned this lesson from General Armstrong, and resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

It is now long ago that I learned this lesson from General Armstrong, and resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.