Booker T. Washington: “The education that you have been getting during the last few days, you will find, as the years go by, has been of a kind…”

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.

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.

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.

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.