Booker T. Washington: “In either case, my observations convinced me that the miners were worse off at the end of the strike.”

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…

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.