Booker T. Washington: “It is much better for a young man to learn to launder his collars himself, than to pretend to the world that he is what…”

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

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

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.