Booker T. Washington: “I want to find you each day more thoughtful of others, and less selfish.”

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

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.

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…

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.