Booker T. Washington: “Have you grown to the point where you are dissatisfied and all out of sorts when your hair is not combed, your finger…”

From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race.

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

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

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