Booker T. Washington

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

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

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

We must reinforce argument with results.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.