Booker T. Washington: “When I say work, I mean study of books, work of the hand, effort of the body, willingness of the heart.”

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

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.

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