Booker T. Washington: “There is no better way to test an act than to ask yourself the question: "What would my father or my mother think of…”

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

How shall we make the mansion on yon Beacon Street feel and see the need of the spirits in the lowliest cabin in Alabama cotton-fields or Louisiana sugar-bottoms?

The more I come into contact with wealthy people, the more I believe that they are growing in the direction of looking upon their money simply as an instrument which God has placed in their hand for doing good with.

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