Booker T. Washington: “Are you going to suffer for your own people until they can receive the light which they so much need?”

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

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

By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.

What is equally important, they are exhibiting a degree of common sense and self-control which is causing better relations to exist between the races, and is causing the Southern white man to learn to believe in the value of educating the…