Booker T. Washington: “Can we so educate a group of students that there will be in every one of them a conscience on which we can depend.”

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

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

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.