Booker T. Washington: “In the field and in the shop, with the plough, the trowel, the hammer, the saw, have you done your level best?”

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…

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

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