Booker T. Washington: “Now I do not mean to disparage the value of this kind of training, because among the things that education should do for…”

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

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.