Booker T. Washington: “It is an opportunity which is being opened to no other set of young men and young women who are being educated anywhere…”

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.

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

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.

This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.