Booker T. Washington: “This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.”

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.