Booker T. Washington: “I have little patience with persons who go around whining that they cannot find anything to do.”

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.

If my life in the past has meant anything in the lifting up of my people and the bringing about of better relations between your race and mine, I assure you from this day it will mean doubly more.

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.