Booker T. Washington: “He has transformed what we call drudgery into a paying business.”

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…

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

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

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