Booker T. Washington: “And until we get to the point where we can get happiness and supreme satisfaction out of helping our fellows, we are not…”

The more I come into contact with wealthy people, the more I believe that they are growing in the direction of looking upon their money simply as an instrument which God has placed in their hand for doing good with.

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.

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