Booker T. Washington: “The possession of money, the having of a bank account, even if small, gives us a certain amount of self-respect.”

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

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

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

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.