Booker T. Washington: “Now there ought to be a higher impulse behind your efforts than that.”

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

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

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.