Booker T. Washington: “Now no individual can help another individual unless he himself is strong.”

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

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.

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.