Booker T. Washington: “It is an opportunity which is being opened to no other set of young men and young women who are being educated anywhere…”

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

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.

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.