Booker T. Washington: “You will find that the longer you stay there the more the people will give you their confidence, and the more they will…”

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

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.

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

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