Booker T. Washington: “With God’s help, I believe that I have completely rid myself of any ill feeling toward the Southern white man for any…”

By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.

I think that the whole future of my race hinges on the question as to whether or not it can make itself of such indispensable value that the people in the town and the state where we reside will feel that our presence is necessary to the…

We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.

Another thing that impressed itself upon me throughout England was the high regard that all classes have for law and order, and the ease and thoroughness with which everything is done.