Booker T. Washington: “I felt that the Reconstruction policy, so far as it related to my race, was in a large measure on a false foundation…”

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.

Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.

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