Booker T. Washington: “I confess that what I saw during my month of travel and investigation left me with a very heavy heart.”

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

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

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