Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. WashingtonNo 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.
Booker T. WashingtonIt often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
Booker T. Washington