Booker T. Washington

Notwithstanding his affliction, he worked almost constantly night and day for the cause to which he had given his life.

Many white people who had had no contact with the school, and perhaps no sympathy with it, came to us to buy bricks because they found out that ours were good bricks.

I have always looked upon fame as something to be used in accomplishing good.

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

The people with whom he lives and works are going to think twice before they part with such a man.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race.

I believe that those who go out and become farmers, and leaders in other directions, as well as teachers, are to succeed.

There are those who need your help and your sacrifice.

There were so many of the older boys and girls in the town, as well as men and women, who had to work in the daytime and still were craving an opportunity for an education, that I soon opened a night-school.

If you cannot learn to think, why, you will be of no use to yourself or anybody else.

And, to be plain with you, we cannot have such people here.

But I determined to learn the business of waiting, and did so within a few weeks and was restored to my former position.