Booker T. Washington: “The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.”

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

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.