Booker T. Washington: “We want you to go out into the world and use your influence toward securing these reforms.”

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

We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.

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