Booker T. Washington: “I was determined from the first to make my work as janitor so valuable that my services would be indispensable.”

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

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

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.

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…