Booker T. Washington: “Somehow I like, as often as possible, to touch nature, not something that is artificial or an imitation, but the real…”

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

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.

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?