Booker T. Washington: “When I say work, I mean study of books, work of the hand, effort of the body, willingness of the heart.”

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.

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

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