Booker T. Washington: “My visit to England gave me a higher regard for the nobility than I had had.”

If my life in the past has meant anything in the lifting up of my people and the bringing about of better relations between your race and mine, I assure you from this day it will mean doubly more.

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

How shall we make the mansion on yon Beacon Street feel and see the need of the spirits in the lowliest cabin in Alabama cotton-fields or Louisiana sugar-bottoms?

This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.