Booker T. Washington: “I felt that this was a debt of honour, and that I could hardly bring myself to the point of even trying to enter school…”

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.

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

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.