Booker T. Washington: “Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.”

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.

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

If my life in the past has meant anything in the lifting up of my people and the bringing about of better relations between your race and mine, I assure you from this day it will mean doubly more.