Booker T. Washington: “It seemed much like making bricks without straw.”

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.

I have always looked upon fame as something to be used in accomplishing good.

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.