Booker T. Washington: “If you can get a word with one syllable that will express your meaning, use it in preference to one of two syllables.”

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

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.

What is equally important, they are exhibiting a degree of common sense and self-control which is causing better relations to exist between the races, and is causing the Southern white man to learn to believe in the value of educating the…

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.