Booker T. Washington: “An individual who has a bank account walks through a street so much more erect; he looks people in the face.”

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

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

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