Booker T. Washington: “Find the community where you think you can use your life to the best advantage, and then stay there.”

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…

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

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.

These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.