Booker T. Washington: “No matter what the thing is, put your conscience into it; do your best.”

What is equally important, they are exhibiting a degree of common sense and self-control which is causing better relations to exist between the races, and is causing the Southern white man to learn to believe in the value of educating the…

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

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.