Booker T. Washington: “We cannot talk our way into our rights; we must work our way, think our way, into them.”

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

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…

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…