Booker T. Washington: “But Tuskegee is, nevertheless, a brand-new chapter in the history of the Negro, and in the history of the knottiest…”

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

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.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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