Booker T. Washington: “We are going forward, and we shall keep going forward if we do not let these difficulties which sometimes occur…”

When freedom came, the slaves were almost as well fitted to begin life anew as the master, except in the matter of book-learning and ownership of property.

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…

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.