Booker T. Washington: “The young men and women were determined to secure an education at any cost.”

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.

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.

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