Booker T. Washington: “If we wish to make them beautiful years or profitable years, we must do it moment by moment as they glide before us.”

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

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.

This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.

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