Booker T. Washington: “Now this practice is not only ridiculous, but it is very hurtful to us as a race, and it should be discouraged.”

Despite superficial and temporary signs which might lead one to entertain a contrary opinion, there was never a time when I felt more hopeful for the race than I do at the present.

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.

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.