Booker T. Washington: “I care for it only as a means to be used for doing good, just as wealth may be used.”

In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.

As I have said, I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of…

The change of work brings a certain kind of rest.

As soon as the last good-bys were said, and the steamer had cut loose from the wharf, the load of care, anxiety, and responsibility which I had carried for eighteen years began to lift itself from my shoulders at the rate, it seemed to me…