Booker T. Washington: “Find the community where you think you can use your life to the best advantage, and then stay there.”

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

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.

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

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.