Booker T. Washington: “I often wish that I had the means to put into every city a large training-school for giving instruction in all lines of…”

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

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

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.