Booker T. Washington: “You can grow stronger, or you can grow weaker; you can grow greater, or smaller; but it will be impossible for you to…”

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.

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…

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

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