Booker T. Washington: “Perhaps the most valuable thing that I got out of my second year was an understanding of the use and value of the Bible.”

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.