I was determined that no one should have the feeling that it was a foreign institution, dropped down in the midst of the people, for which they had no responsibility and in which they had no interest.
Washington expresses his firm determination to prevent Tuskegee Institute from being perceived as an external entity, emphasizing local responsibility and interest.
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This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.
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.
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.