Booker T. Washington: “In one way or another, every individual who amounts to anything is a servant.”

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

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

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…