Booker T. Washington: “No matter from which side you look at this problem, good is bound to come from it.”

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

In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.