You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

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.

Character, not circumstances, make the man.