Booker T. Washington: “My visit to England gave me a higher regard for the nobility than I had had.”

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.

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

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

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.