Booker T. Washington: “Now I do not mean to disparage the value of this kind of training, because among the things that education should do for…”

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

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.

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.