Booker T. Washington: “You will find that politeness counts for a great deal, not only in helping you to get work, but in helping you to keep…”

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

We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.

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

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