Booker T. Washington: “Since the work at Tuskegee started, it has been my privilege to receive many gifts for the benefit of the institution…”

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

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.