Booker T. Washington: “Whatever I have done I have honestly endeavored to do to the best of my ability.”

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

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.

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?

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