Booker T. Washington: “The people who kill and are killed, nine times out of ten, whether they are black or white, are people who do not own a…”

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.

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.

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

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