Booker T. Washington: “The miserable persons in this world are the ones whose hearts are narrow and hard; the happy ones are those who have…”

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.

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