Booker T. Washington: “Learn that it is no disgrace to obey those in authority.”

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

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

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…

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