Booker T. Washington: “It is absolutely impossible for an institution to stand still; it must go forward or backward, grow better or worse each…”

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.

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.

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.