Booker T. Washington: “The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race.”

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…

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

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

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.