Booker T. Washington: “The more you do to make somebody else happy, the more happiness will you receive in turn.”

Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.

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