Booker T. Washington: “You will find it true, not only in this country but in other countries, that the demand will be more and more for people…”

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.