Kelly Miller

“The progress of the world is a zigzag movement.”

“It is not the province of prejudice to be rational.”

“Racial self-respect is the saving salt of character.”

“The solution of the race problem will not be found in the triumph of either race, but in the co-operation of both.”

“The Negro's salvation must be worked out by himself.”

“Let the Negro race be judged by its best, and not by its worst.”

“The argument of the higher education of the Negro is not for the purpose of creating a class of scholars, but to train leaders.”

“The Negro is here to stay, and the white man might as well make up his mind to treat him as a man and a citizen.”

“To be ashamed of one's race is to be ashamed of one's self.”

“Exaggerated self-importance is the all-too-common foible of the over-educated.”

“The radical and the conservative are equally essential to the sanity of the state.”

“We must not be ashamed of our color. A man who is ashamed of his skin is a coward.”

“The world is not going to be saved by the great men, but by the little men who do their duty.”

“Civilization is the art of self-restraint.”

“It is idle to expect a people to rise higher than the ideals of its leaders.”

“The Negro must be taught to respect himself.”

“The function of the university is not to teach that which is useful, but to teach that which is true.”

“The Negro wants everything that the white man has, and he wants it on the same terms.”