Booker T. Washington: “You cannot afford to learn to speak anything but the absolute truth.”

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

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…

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.