Booker T. Washington: “It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared…”

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

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.

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

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.