Booker T. Washington: “Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.”

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.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

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

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…