Booker T. Washington: “If you want to be happy, if you want to live a contented life, if you want to live a life of genuine pleasure, do…”

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

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.