Booker T. Washington: “Do not look for trouble," is a safe maxim to follow, but it is equally safe to prepare for trouble.”

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…

This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race.