Booker T. Washington: “No matter how much we may praise its proportions and enjoy its beauty, it dies unless its roots and fibres touch and…”

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.

This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.

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.

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