Booker T. Washington: “It taught me how the people of New England have educated their consciences so that they cannot allow themselves to let…”

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

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?

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.

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