Booker T. Washington: “Where the soil is cheap there is little or no excuse for any man or woman going about complaining that he or she cannot…”

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.

We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.

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

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