Booker T. Washington: “I determined to face the situation just as it was.”

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

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

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…