Booker T. Washington: “He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that…”

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?

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

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.