Booker T. Washington: “The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed; And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate…”

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

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

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…

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.