Booker T. Washington: “This force is so organized and subdivided that the machinery of the school goes on day by day like clockwork.”

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

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.

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

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.