Booker T. Washington: “These white people are beginning to see the difference between the value of an educated Negro and one who is not…”

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

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

In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.

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