Booker T. Washington: “If I could put my hand on a thousand such persons as that, we could find employment for all of them as soon as they got…”

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.

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

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

What is equally important, they are exhibiting a degree of common sense and self-control which is causing better relations to exist between the races, and is causing the Southern white man to learn to believe in the value of educating the…