Booker T. Washington: “I have always looked upon fame as something to be used in accomplishing good.”

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.

Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.

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?