Booker T. Washington: “You can get dresses and clothes after you have secured your education, but now is the only time that you have in which…”

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.

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.

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?