Booker T. Washington: “The community may not at the time be prepared for, or feel the need of, Greek analysis, but it may feel its need of…”

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

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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

Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.