Booker T. Washington: “If you have not reached that point, when you come to graduate, then there will be something wrong with your education…”

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.

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.

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