Booker T. Washington: “I want you to be really honest with yourselves and say, from to-night on, "I am going to take charge of myself.”

I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.

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.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.