Booker T. Washington: “Be sure that the young men and women with whom you associate are persons who are able to raise you up, persons who will…”

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

The more I come into contact with wealthy people, the more I believe that they are growing in the direction of looking upon their money simply as an instrument which God has placed in their hand for doing good with.

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

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…