Booker T. Washington: “I went at once to the vessel and asked the captain to permit me to help unload the vessel in order to get money for…”

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.

I have always looked upon fame as something to be used in accomplishing good.

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

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