Booker T. Washington: “I hope you are learning that labour with the hand, in any form whatever, is not disgraceful.”

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.