Booker T. Washington: “Even to this day I never see bits of paper scattered around a house or in the street that I do not want to pick them up…”

I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

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

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.