Booker T. Washington: “When they say that the Negro is not economical, I want you to show them a Negro with $50,000 in the bank.”

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.

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

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

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