Booker T. Washington: “Every individual responds to confidence, and this is not more true of any race than of the Negroes.”

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

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

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.

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.