Booker T. Washington: “When I have found him I usually go straight at him, and it is a great satisfaction to watch the process of his thawing…”

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.