Booker T. Washington: “If you can extend a helping hand to a white person, feel just as happy in doing so as in helping a black person.”

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

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

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

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