Booker T. Washington: “The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar…”

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

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

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.

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.