Booker T. Washington: “I want you to be more conscientious in your thoughts and in your work, and with regard to your duty toward others.”

Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.

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.