Booker T. Washington: “I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.”

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

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.

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.

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