Booker T. Washington: “This, I believe, should be so because the race is an agricultural one, and because my hope is that it will remain such.”

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

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

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

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.