Booker T. Washington: “The ambition to secure an education was most praiseworthy and encouraging.”

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.

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

This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.

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.