Booker T. Washington: “The thing to do is to feel some responsibility in seeing that things are done right yourself.”

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.

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