Booker T. Washington: “No one ever loses anything by being a gentleman or a lady.”

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…

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

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.

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…