2 passages by Booker T. Washington, from Up from Slavery. Booker T. Washington died in 1915, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
American educator and author (1856–1915), born into slavery in Virginia. First head of the Tuskegee Institute and author of the autobiography Up from Slavery (1901).
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.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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