Christopher Sheets

“Among a large class there seemed to be a dependence upon the Government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the Federal officials to create one for them.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery - An Autobiography

“I said that any individual who learned to do something better than anybody else—learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner—had solved his problem, regardless of the colour of his skin, and that in proportion as the Negro learned to produce what other people wanted and must have, in the same proportion would he be respected.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: an autobiography

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.”
― David McCullough, John Adams