From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did … - Booker T. Washington

No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward.

Education is not a thing apart from life — not a “system,” nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.