Booker T. Washington: “But the question that comes to us with the greatest force is: "Are we going to be worthy of that support?”

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

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.

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.

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