Booker T. Washington: “I have little patience with persons who go around whining that they cannot find anything to do.”

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

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.