Booker T. Washington: “It never pays to be dishonest in taking another person's clothes or books.”

I have always looked upon fame as something to be used in accomplishing good.

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…