Booker T. Washington: “It has reference to doing whatever we do in the best manner, no matter whom we serve.”

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

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.