Booker T. Washington: “To make the Negro work, that is what his master did in one way and hunger has done in another; yet both these left…”

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

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

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.