Booker T. Washington: “No idle person is ever safe, whether he be rich or poor.”

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

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.

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.

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.