Booker T. Washington: “Well may Harvard honour the ex-slave, the value of whose services, alike to his race and country, only the future can…”

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.