Booker T. Washington: “I speak of farming particularly, because I believe that to be the great foundation upon which we must build for the…”

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…

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.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.