Booker T. Washington: “In order to find some short road to success, in order to have momentary happiness, they yielded to temptation.”

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

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.

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.