Booker T. Washington: “Know all there is to be known about the position you occupy, but ever feel that there is more for you to learn.”

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

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

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…