Booker T. Washington: “I have passed several examinations since then, but I have always felt that this was the best one I ever passed.”

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

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.

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 pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.