Booker T. Washington: “In no matter how small a degree it may be, see that you are assisting some one else.”

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.