Booker T. Washington: “You had better begin life in a hollow tree and be a man, than begin it in a rented house and be a mere tool, the…”

Despite superficial and temporary signs which might lead one to entertain a contrary opinion, there was never a time when I felt more hopeful for the race than I do at the present.

How shall we make the mansion on yon Beacon Street feel and see the need of the spirits in the lowliest cabin in Alabama cotton-fields or Louisiana sugar-bottoms?

The more I come into contact with wealthy people, the more I believe that they are growing in the direction of looking upon their money simply as an instrument which God has placed in their hand for doing good with.

By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.