Booker T. Washington: “We want to feel that in every student who goes out from here there is a character which can be depended upon in the…”

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

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

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.