Booker T. Washington: “The essays, the orations, the sermons that are not the productions of the people who pretend to write them, all come…”

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.

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

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