I have gotten a large part of my education from actual contact with things, rather than through the medium of books. I like to touch things and handl… - Booker T. Washington

There is no escape — man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

I have been made to feel sad for such persons because I am conscious of the fact that mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless he has individual worth, and mere connection with what is regarded as an inferior race will not finally hold an individual back if he possesses intrinsic, individual merit. Every persecuted individual and race should get much consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter under what skin found, is, in the long run, recognized and rewarded.

Success always leaves footprints.