Booker T. Washington: “The first boy did a dollar's worth of work for fifty cents.”

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

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

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.