Julius Rosenwald

“I can only say that I am more and more impressed with the importance of the Negro's contribution to the South.”

“All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.”

“Charity which pauperizes is not charity. It is a vice.”

“If you can't give in dollars, give in sense.”

“What I want to do is to try and cure the disease. I am not interested in a temporary palliative.”

“I am a firm believer in the theory that you can do much more with a man by praising him than by criticizing him.”

“Remember that you are not giving your own money. You are giving the money of the firm. You have no right to be generous with the firm's money.”

“Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is no surety in wealth.”

“We are not only our brother's keeper; in countless ways, we are our brother's maker.”

“The horrors of the centuries which have been visited upon the Negroes have naturally made them suspicious of all white men.”

“Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgment.”

“It has been my experience that the man who is 'too busy' to see a caller is the one who is not doing any real business.”