Booker T. Washington: “I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.”

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

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.

What is equally important, they are exhibiting a degree of common sense and self-control which is causing better relations to exist between the races, and is causing the Southern white man to learn to believe in the value of educating the…

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