Booker T. Washington: “It pays an individual to be honest with another person's money.”

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.

When freedom came, the slaves were almost as well fitted to begin life anew as the master, except in the matter of book-learning and ownership of property.

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

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