Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.