Booker T. Washington: “No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected…”

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

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.

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

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