Booker T. Washington: “In the first place you should be continually on the lookout for opportunities to improve yourselves in your present…”

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.

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

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.