Booker T. Washington: “We expect those who are here to keep strong, and to make themselves efficient in these three directions, in each of…”

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.

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.

When freedom came, the slaves were almost as well fitted to begin life anew as the master, except in the matter of book-learning and ownership of property.