Booker T. Washington: “What we should do in all our schools is to turn out fewer job-seekers and more job-makers.”

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.

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

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.