Booker T. Washington: “And so, one day about a dozen years ago, he made up his mind that henceforth he would be himself--that he would stand…”

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

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

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