Booker T. Washington: “I believe that those who go out and become farmers, and leaders in other directions, as well as teachers, are to…”

This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.

From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race.

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.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.