In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. - Booker T. Washington

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority. Hence labour was something that both races on the slave plantation sought to escape.

I am learning more and more each year that all worry simply consumes, and to no purpose, just so much physical and mental strength that might otherwise be given to effective work.