Booker T. Washington: “Persons cannot call themselves educated and refined who do not make the matter of the cleanliness and proper care of…”

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

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

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

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?