Booker T. Washington: “Learn that it is no disgrace to obey those in authority.”

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…

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.

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.