Booker T. Washington: “Those who have to wait to have somebody else put ideas into their minds are not worth much of anything.”

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.

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.

I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.