Booker T. Washington

He knew that the people in the North who gave money gave it for the purpose of helping the whole cause of Negro civilization, and not merely for the advancement of any one school.

He was too big to be little, too good to be mean.

Let them once understand that you are unselfishly interested in them, and you can lead them to any extent.

Every individual responds to confidence, and this is not more true of any race than of the Negroes.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

It has been my aim to have them speak with directness and frankness about anything that concerns the life of the school.

I have further sought to have them feel that I am at the institution as their friend and adviser, and not as their overseer.

From the first I have sought to impress the students with the idea that Tuskegee is not my institution, or that of the officers, but that it is their institution, and that they have as much interest in it as any of the trustees or…

At the present time there is almost no Southern state that is not putting forth efforts in the direction of securing industrial education for its white boys and girls, and in most cases it is easy to trace the history of these efforts back…

Another thing that is becoming more apparent each year in the development of education in the South is the influence of General Armstrong’s idea of education; and this not upon the blacks alone, but upon the whites also.

All this, it seems to me, makes it important that the whole Nation lend a hand in trying to lift the burden of ignorance from the South.

The white man who begins to break the law by lynching a Negro soon yields to the temptation to lynch a white man.