Booker T. Washington: “I would say that education is meant to give us an idea of truth.”

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.

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

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