Booker T. Washington: “I have always felt proud that she refused to go into debt for that which she did not have the money to pay for.”

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

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

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.