Booker T. Washington: “White men learned that they could dignify that branch of labour, and they began to study it in schools.”

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

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.

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

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