Booker T. Washington: “Hereafter all my thoughts, all my words, all my acts, shall be large, generous, high, pure.”

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.

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.