Booker T. Washington: “Whenever you are tempted to yield a hair's breadth in the direction which I have indicated, ask yourself the question…”

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

Despite superficial and temporary signs which might lead one to entertain a contrary opinion, there was never a time when I felt more hopeful for the race than I do at the present.

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.

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