Booker T. Washington: “We want you to learn, if you do not already know, that in order to be Christlike one does not have to be unnatural.”

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

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