Booker T. Washington: “It is much better for a young man to learn to launder his collars himself, than to pretend to the world that he is what…”

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.

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.

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

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.