Booker T. Washington: “Just in proportion as we can establish object lessons of this kind all over the country, you will find that the problem…”

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…

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

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.