Booker T. Washington: “They brought to my mind the plantation, the cabin, the slave, not the freedman in quest of education.”

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.

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

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

We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.