Booker T. Washington: “I have so trained myself that I can lie down for a nap of fifteen or twenty minutes, and get up refreshed in body and…”

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.

Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

Despite superficial and temporary signs which might lead one to entertain a contrary opinion, there was never a time when I felt more hopeful for the race than I do at the present.