Booker T. Washington: “I felt a good deal as I suppose a man feels when he is on his way to the gallows.”

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

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

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.