Booker T. Washington: “Mistakes I knew would be made, but these mistakes would teach us valuable lessons for the future.”

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

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 have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

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…