Booker T. Washington: “My case will illustrate that of hundreds of thousands of black people in every part of our country.”

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.

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.