Booker T. Washington: “I want you to go forward by thoroughness in your work; by being more conscientious in your work; by loving your work…”

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.

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.