Booker T. Washington: “I have passed several examinations since then, but I have always felt that this was the best one I ever passed.”

The more I come into contact with wealthy people, the more I believe that they are growing in the direction of looking upon their money simply as an instrument which God has placed in their hand for doing good with.

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.

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.