Booker T. Washington: “It was this quality in the first boy that made him valuable and caused him to rise.”

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 pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

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

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