Booker T. Washington: “The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.”

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

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

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

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