Booker T. Washington: “If in an audience of a thousand people there is one person who is not in sympathy with my views, or is inclined to be…”

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…