Booker T. Washington: “But sham, buffoonery, mere imitation, mere superficiality, never has brought success and never will bring it.”

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

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

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?

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.