Booker T. Washington: “They were all willing to learn the right thing as soon as it was shown them what was right.”

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.

I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

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