Booker T. Washington: “Notice I do not say merely that I want your teachers--those who are over you--to find you growing more polite; I want…”

I have always looked upon fame as something to be used in accomplishing good.

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

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.