Booker T. Washington: “I hope you are learning that labour with the hand, in any form whatever, is not disgraceful.”

If my life in the past has meant anything in the lifting up of my people and the bringing about of better relations between your race and mine, I assure you from this day it will mean doubly more.

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.

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.