Just in proportion as you learn to rise above them and trample them under your feet, just in that proportion will you accomplish the high purpose for which you came here, and help to accomplish the purpose for which this institution exists.
Washington stresses that overcoming obstacles is essential for achieving one's goals and contributing to the institution's mission.
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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.
This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.
We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.
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.