Booker T. Washington: “Luxuries had always seemed to me to be something meant for white people, not for my race.”

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

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.

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

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.