Booker T. Washington: “We are here for the purpose of educating you, that you may become strong, intelligent and helpful.”

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

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

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

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