Scott Ruddle

“The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. Instead”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: an autobiography

“They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, but those who are inflicting it upon me.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery - An Autobiography

“In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: an autobiography