Booker T. Washington: “Don't go home and feel ashamed of your parents because you think they don't know as much as you think you know.”

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

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.

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…