Booker T. Washington: “The world, regardless of race, or colour, or condition, admires and approves a real thing.”

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.