Booker T. Washington: “These were the questions of a home, a living, the rearing of children, education, citizenship, and the establishment and…”

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.

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.