We want Tuskegee students to go out from here and establish homes that will be models in every respect for those about them--homes that will show that the lives of the persons who have established them are models for the lives of those who live about them.
He urges Tuskegee students to create exemplary homes that reflect their values and inspire others.
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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.
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.
By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.
This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.