Booker T. Washington: “To make the Negro work, that is what his master did in one way and hunger has done in another; yet both these left…”

This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.

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

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.