Booker T. Washington: “When you can convince the people that you are in earnest, the battle is won.”

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

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.

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