Booker T. Washington: “Wherever you go, we wish you by your own actions, by your advice, by your influence, to try and disprove and counteract…”

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

What is equally important, they are exhibiting a degree of common sense and self-control which is causing better relations to exist between the races, and is causing the Southern white man to learn to believe in the value of educating the…

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.