Booker T. Washington: “If there is no man there, we may put on all the collars and cuffs we can get, and we shall find that they will not make…”

How shall we make the mansion on yon Beacon Street feel and see the need of the spirits in the lowliest cabin in Alabama cotton-fields or Louisiana sugar-bottoms?

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

This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.

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