Booker T. Washington: “The people with whom he lives and works are going to think twice before they part with such a man.”

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.