Booker T. Washington: “Consider the change that has come in twenty years in the discussion of the Negro problem.”

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

When they saw that I was not afraid or ashamed to work, they began to assist with more enthusiasm.