Booker T. Washington: “One of the highest ambitions of every man leaving Tuskegee Institute should be to help the people of his race find…”

When they saw that I was not afraid or ashamed to work, they began to assist with more enthusiasm.

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

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…

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