Booker T. Washington: “I want you to go out from this institution so trained and so developed that you will be constantly looking for the…”

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

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