Booker T. Washington: “What position you are to occupy must be left to your future and to your capacity.”

When freedom came, the slaves were almost as well fitted to begin life anew as the master, except in the matter of book-learning and ownership of property.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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 think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.