Booker T. Washington: “Used in this way you will find that your knowledge of chemistry will cause others to honour you.”

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.