Booker T. Washington: “Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.”

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.

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?

In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.

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