Scott Ruddle

“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

“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

“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

“No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world. In meeting men, in many places, I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least. I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: an autobiography