Booker T. Washington: “When they say that the Negro is not economical, I want you to show them a Negro with $50,000 in the bank.”

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

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

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.

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.