Booker T. Washington: “In a word, I want you to get hold of this idea, that you can make the future of your lives just what you want to make…”

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.

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

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

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