Booker T. Washington: “Be sure that the man is there, and if he is, the collars and the cuffs will come in due time.”

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

How shall we make the mansion on yon Beacon Street feel and see the need of the spirits in the lowliest cabin in Alabama cotton-fields or Louisiana sugar-bottoms?

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

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.