Booker T. Washington

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?