Booker T. Washington: “No person can do his best work, or can be of the greatest service to himself and to his fellow-beings, until he is able…”

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.