Booker T. Washington: “I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.”

Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

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

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.