Booker T. Washington: “Don't go home and feel that you are better than the rest of the folks in your neighbourhood because you have been away…”

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.

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.