Booker T. Washington: “To teach the Negro to read, whether English, or Greek, or Hebrew, butters no parsnips.”

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.

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

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

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.