Booker T. Washington: “Now I want to suggest to you to-night that this very thing of discouragement, as an element in life, is for a purpose.”

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

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

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.