Booker T. Washington: “The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.”

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 picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

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

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.