Booker T. Washington: “No matter how cheap your homes are, no matter how poverty-stricken you may be in regard to money, it is possible for…”

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.

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

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.