Booker T. Washington: “And you will find that just in proportion as we do this, we are going to get all we deserve.”

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

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

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.

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.