Booker T. Washington: “Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.”

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

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

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.

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.