Booker T. Washington: “On every side our lives touch those of others; their lives touch ours.”

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

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

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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…