Booker T. Washington: “My heart is too full—full of hope, admiration, and pride for my countrymen of both sections and both colours.”

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…

I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.

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.