Booker T. Washington

The money which you would give would not only supply the building, but the erection of the building would give a large number of students an opportunity to learn the building trades, and the students would use the money paid to them to…

I do not believe that a similar amount of money often could be made go so far in uplifting a whole race.

It is very largely through this effort and influence that during the last few years the subject of industrial education has assumed the importance that it has, and been placed on its present footing.

It is upon these small gifts, which carry with them the interest of hundreds of donors, that any philanthropic work must depend largely for its support.

In a large degree it has been the pennies, the nickels, and the dimes which have come from the Sunday-schools, the Christian Endeavour societies, and the missionary societies, as well as from the church proper, that have helped to elevate…

It is largely because it furnishes such a good opportunity to test the backbone of a student that I place such high value upon our night-school.

While a great deal of stress is laid upon the industrial side of the work at Tuskegee, we do not neglect or overlook in any degree the religious and spiritual side.

The school is strictly undenominational, but it is thoroughly Christian, and the spiritual training of the students is not neglected.

When I first came to Tuskegee, I determined that I would make it my home, that I would take as much pride in the right actions of the people of the town as any white man could do, and that I would, at the same time, deplore the wrong-doing…

I determined never to say anything in a public address in the North that I would not be willing to say in the South.

I have found that there is a large element in the South that is quick to respond to straightforward, honest criticism of any wrong policy.

My own belief is, although I have never before said so in so many words, that the time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.