I have always been made sad when I have heard members of any race claiming rights and privileges, or certain badges of distinction, on the ground sim… - Booker T. Washington

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race.

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite.

I had no schooling whatever while I was a slave, though I remember on several occasions I went as far as the schoolhouse door with one of my young mistresses to carry her books. 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.