Booker T. Washington: “We want people who are going to think, people who are going to prepare themselves.”

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

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

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

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.