Booker T. Washington: “I'm gwine to sit at de welcome table I'm gwine to feast off milk an' honey.”

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.

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

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.