Booker T. Washington: “I want to find you each day more thoughtful of others, and less selfish.”

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

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

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.

We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.