Booker T. Washington: “Men and women are wanted who understand the preparation and supplying of food--I don't mean in the small menial…”

Despite superficial and temporary signs which might lead one to entertain a contrary opinion, there was never a time when I felt more hopeful for the race than I do at the present.

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.

In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.