Washington, ''Address of Booker T. Washington...'' (1895)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/HeatherMourick/2009/11/whistle_while_you_work.html

"In design, beauty, and general finish the Negro Building was equal to the others on the grounds" (Washington, Two Thousand Miles for a Five Minute Speech para. 24)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/11/structurally_equal.html

Cement the friendship of the races

"I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done." (paragraph 9 of Two Thousand Miles for a Five Minute Speech)

"Any one who is willing to work ten hours a day at the brick-yard, or in the laundry, through one or two years, in order that he or she may have the privilege of studying academic branches for two hours in the evening, has enough bottom to warrant being further educated." (Booker T. Washington)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/11/el_266_address_of_booker_t_was.html

"I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done."
~paragraph 9 of chapter 13: Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/11/how_true_1.html

"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." (Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition, para. 20)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeaganGemperlein/2009/11/happy_is_what_happens_when_you.html

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem" (para. 6).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaLesko/2009/11/just_shut_up_and_do_it.html

"I have always had more of an ambition to do things than merely to talk about doing them" (para. 7)
"I always make it a rule to make especial preparation for each separate address...At the time, the audience before me absorbs all my sympathy, thought, and energy" (para. 35)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JamieGrace/2009/11/let_me_tell_you_a_little_about.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SarahDurham/2009/12/booker_t_washington.html

As I remember it now, the thing that was uppermost in my mind was the desire to say something that would cement the friendship of the races and bring about hearty cooperation between them. (Washington)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/12/washington.html