Booker T. Washington: “When you feel unhappy, disagreeable and miserable, go to some one else who is miserable and do that person an act of…”

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.

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?

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