Booker T. Washington: “If you do not learn it now, in a large degree you will be failures in life.”

In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.

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.

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

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.