Booker T. Washington: “No man living had a harder task, and a task that called for more wisdom to do it right.”

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.

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

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.