Booker T. Washington: “I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.”

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 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.

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

In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.