Booker T. Washington: “The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed; And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate…”

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.

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

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.