Booker T. Washington: “I do not see any hope unless we can depend upon you to change them, you young men and young women who are being educated…”

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.

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

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…