Booker T. Washington: “With cheap lands, a beautiful climate and a rich soil, we can lay the foundation of a great and powerful race.”

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

We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.

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.