Booker T. Washington: “If there is a young man or a young woman here who likes jewellery, and is going to indulge in it, be sure to get that…”

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

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?

If my life in the past has meant anything in the lifting up of my people and the bringing about of better relations between your race and mine, I assure you from this day it will mean doubly more.

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.