Booker T. Washington: “All this made me proceed very cautiously, for I felt keenly the great responsibility.”

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

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

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

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…