Booker T. Washington: “This Negro had been given a chance to get upon his feet.”

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

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

We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.

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.