Booker T. Washington: “White men learned that they could dignify that branch of labour, and they began to study it in schools.”

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

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.

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

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