Booker T. Washington: “I never knew, before visiting Holland, how much it was possible for people to get out of a small plot of ground.”

The English servant expects, as a rule, to be nothing but a servant, and so he perfects himself in the art to a degree that no class of servants in America has yet reached.

This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.

I have often said to my friends that if I can use whatever prominence may have come to me as an instrument with which to do good, I am content to have it.

Despite superficial and temporary signs which might lead one to entertain a contrary opinion, there was never a time when I felt more hopeful for the race than I do at the present.