Booker T. Washington: “I felt that I had in some degree accomplished my object—that of getting a hearing from the dominant class of the South.”

This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.

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

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

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