Booker T. Washington: “I want you to understand when you start out in school, that no individual can accomplish anything unless he means to…”

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

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…

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.

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