Booker T. Washington: “A narrow life, a selfish life, is almost sure to be not only unprofitable but unhappy.”

What is equally important, they are exhibiting a degree of common sense and self-control which is causing better relations to exist between the races, and is causing the Southern white man to learn to believe in the value of educating the…

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.

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

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