Booker T. Washington: “Let them once understand that you are unselfishly interested in them, and you can lead them to any extent.”

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…

Despite superficial and temporary signs which might lead one to entertain a contrary opinion, there was never a time when I felt more hopeful for the race than I do at the present.

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.