Booker T. Washington: “I have usually proceeded on the principle that persons who possess sense enough to earn money have sense enough to know…”

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

When they saw that I was not afraid or ashamed to work, they began to assist with more enthusiasm.

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

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.