Booker T. Washington: “It has been my aim to have them speak with directness and frankness about anything that concerns the life of the school.”

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.

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

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

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.