Booker T. Washington: “You can get the most out of this Conference by putting into practice this effort to make other people happy.”

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

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.

Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.

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