Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason… - Booker T. Washington

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.

In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls — with the great outside world. No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world. In meeting men, in many places, I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least.