Booker T. Washington: “It was my aim from the first at Tuskegee to not only have the buildings erected by the students themselves, but to have…”

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

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

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.