Booker T. Washington: “Besides, if one race of people, or one individual, is simply to follow in the steps of another, no progress would ever…”

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

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.

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