Booker T. Washington: “I have found that strict business methods go a long way in securing the interest of rich people.”

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

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.