Booker T. Washington: “It was this quality in the first boy that made him valuable and caused him to rise.”

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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

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…

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