Booker T. Washington: “Whatever is intrusted to you to do in the industrial departments, in the class rooms, be sure that you put your whole…”

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

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.

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.

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…