Booker T. Washington: “To teach the Negro to read, whether English, or Greek, or Hebrew, butters no parsnips.”

Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.

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

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

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