Booker T. Washington: “I have spoken very plainly about these things, because I believe that they are matters to which as a race we ought to…”

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…

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.