Booker T. Washington: “Campbell said to me, in his fatherly way: “Washington, always remember that credit is capital.”

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

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