Booker T. Washington: “This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.”

This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.

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.

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

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