Booker T. Washington: “We want you to learn, if you do not already know, that in order to be Christlike one does not have to be unnatural.”

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

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.

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