Booker T. Washington: “It was very much like suddenly turning a youth of ten or twelve years out into the world to provide for himself.”

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

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.

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.