Booker T. Washington: “In this way pleasant relations between the races have been stimulated.”

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

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

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.