Booker T. Washington: “If you go out to have schools of your own, have your pupils sing them as you have sung them here, and teach them to see…”

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?

Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.

If my life in the past has meant anything in the lifting up of my people and the bringing about of better relations between your race and mine, I assure you from this day it will mean doubly more.

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