Booker T. Washington: “But that tree, and the land on which it stood, were his own.”

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

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 do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

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