Booker T. Washington: “It is a mark of intelligence to learn, even from the humblest person.”

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

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

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