Booker T. Washington: “Most of you are going out from Tuskegee sooner or later to exert your influence in the home life of our people.”

We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.

This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.

By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.

This problem Harvard University is solving, not by bringing itself down, but by bringing the masses up.