Booker T. Washington: “I want each boy and each girl who belongs to this institution to be deep down in his or her heart a gentleman or a lady.”

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.

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.