Booker T. Washington: “I advise you, then, to go into the country and the towns, rather than into the cities.”

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

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

Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.