Booker T. Washington: “I try to look after the little ills, with the idea that if I take care of the little ills the big ones will not come.”

This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.

By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.

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.

Despite superficial and temporary signs which might lead one to entertain a contrary opinion, there was never a time when I felt more hopeful for the race than I do at the present.