Booker T. Washington: “I want you to be really honest with yourselves and say, from to-night on, "I am going to take charge of myself.”

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

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

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.