Booker T. Washington: “Before an individual or a race thus equipped, race prejudice, senseless customs, oppressions, will hide their faces…”

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

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.

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

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.