Booker T. Washington: “In doing that, you will do the most for yourselves.”

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

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.

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…

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.