Booker T. Washington

You will find that the longer you stay there the more the people will give you their confidence, and the more they will respect and love you.

The ones we want are the ones who are going to think of such things as these without being told.

If we cannot turn out a man here who is capable of taking care of a pig sty, how can we expect him to take care of affairs of State?

I was determined, if possible, to make such a record in my class as would cause me to be placed on the “honour roll” of Commencement speakers.

The kind of persons we want here are those who are not going to wait for you to tell them to do such things, but who will think of them for themselves and do them.

We want people who are going to think, people who are going to prepare themselves.

In either case, my observations convinced me that the miners were worse off at the end of the strike.

Of the two, I believe I would rather see you own a bathtub without a house, than a house without a bathtub.

Where the soil is cheap there is little or no excuse for any man or woman going about complaining that he or she cannot find work.

We expect those who are here to keep strong, and to make themselves efficient in these three directions, in each of which you are to learn to be leaders.

Now no individual can help another individual unless he himself is strong.

The lessons taught me in this respect took such a hold upon me that at the present time, when I am at home, no matter how busy I am, I always make it a rule to read a chapter or a portion of a chapter in the morning, before beginning the…