Booker T. Washington: “The whole speech is a platform upon which blacks and whites can stand with full justice to each other.”

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

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

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.