Booker T. Washington: “Just in proportion as you do this, you will find that you will not only influence yourself in the right direction, but…”

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

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