Booker T. Washington: “Wherever you go, after you leave this school, I hope that you will never give up the singing of these songs.”

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.

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.

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