Booker T. Washington: “The whole speech is a platform upon which blacks and whites can stand with full justice to each other.”

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

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.

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.