Booker T. Washington: “The years come to us but once, and they come then only to pass swiftly on, bearing the ineffaceable record we have put…”

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

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.

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

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