Booker T. Washington: “An individual who has a bank account walks through a street so much more erect; he looks people in the face.”

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

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.

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.