Booker T. Washington: “By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.”

In one thing, at least, I feel sure that the English are ahead of Americans, and that is, that they have learned how to get more out of life.

It is an inspiring sight when one stands on the platform there and sees before him eleven or twelve hundred earnest young men and women; and one cannot but feel that it is a privilege to help to guide them to a higher and more useful life.

As I have said, I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of…

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…